Today feels like the perfect day to take a moment to meditate on poetry as a place to make and remake alternate selves and worlds.
Read "Golden in the Morning Crane Our Necks" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/159368/golden-in-the-morning-crane-our-necks
Now, we are going to write an ars poetica. Specifically, write of the selves you have been in your poems, and also what art and writing has removed you from. What have you written yourself to the other side of?
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