It's ars poetica day! A staple of the 30/30, and we have a doozy for you: https://poets.org/poem/ars-poetica-7
I love how fully Aldrin embodies the poem as a voice, so for today's ars poetica, try to envision this as a persona poem. We aren't just writing about poetry, we are writing as the poem itself.
Still with us? We are tantalizingly close to finishing out this challenge!
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