write an abecedarian poem – a poem with a structure derived from the alphabet. … when other people came to the planet that queens aya and e— had discovered, there […]
Year: 2015
the first child (9/30)
Write a visual poem. I will attempt to write a poem shaped like a pregnant queen. … shh she is stunning sleeping small i feel humbled expansive feel all miraculous […]
counter lesson on currency (8/30)
write a palinode. And what’s that? It’s a poem in which the poet retracts a statement made in an earlier poem. counter lesson on currency yesterday queen aya taught you […]
lesson on currency (7/30)
today’s prompt: write about money! It could be about not having enough, having too much (a nice kind of problem to have), the smell, or feel, or sensory aspects of […]
an aubade from aya (6/30)
write an aubade (a song from a door or window to a sleeping woman, a morning love song). … the land is quiet between us for months we face this […]
e— reads aya dickinson on the new world
napowrimo prompt 5: rewrite a poem from emily dickinson with your own spacing and punctuation. i did this, as well as adding some interjections from queen aya, who claims not […]
aya and e— speak of emotion (4/30)
day 4 prompt: I challenge you to write a “loveless” love poem. Don’t use the word love! And avoid the flowers and rainbows. … aya and e— speak of emotion […]
revisiting the sugar cleanse
Sugar is snow. Sugar is drug. Sugar is statistically proven to strip me of my dignity and my health. And yet. Sugar is laughter. Sugar is energy. Sugar is of […]
e— recalls creating (3/30)
day 3 prompt: write a fourteener. fourteeners can be have any number of lines, but each line should have fourteen syllables … e— journal entry 3/26/R1259 we are building a […]
aya’s own stars (2/30)
today’s prompt: take your gaze upward, and write a poem about the stars. …… e— wore the grav belt even when they were alone on a field like shards of […]