Only two days in, and I am more inspired than I've been in months. Today we are reading "Field Notes on a Family Meal." This poem does so much with how it nests the deeper confession inside a series of smaller "confessions."
Read the poem here: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/poetry-culture/2020/07/field-notes-on-a-family-meal
Now, write a poem with the refrain "yes" starting each thought. Include a more serious revelation within a list of smaller ones.
Write Brave!
Our final prompt this year comes to us from Cameron Awkward-Rich, and his iconic poem, "Meditations in an Emergency" https://www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-database/poem/meditations-in-an-emergency Ther
I am obsessed with the sonics of this poem. You so clearly see the musical influence, not just in the referential lines, but in how the sonics form the logic of the piece. https://poets.org/poem/ride-
Today is a gorgeous reflective poem, "Taharah." https://poets.org/poem/taharah This piece deals with the idea of the afterlife, not in terms of heaven or hell, but in terms of thelife our body has aft