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Napowrimo, Day 9 – Reconfiguration
I was discussing with someone last night how you might read something and think, yes, it is presented in lines, perhaps has a working metaphor; it might even be rhymed and metered. But in the end you think, “That wasn’t a poem.” I think this is a topic I’d like us to chat about in…
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Napowrimo, Day 7 – A Matter of Time
Where the hell did the first week of April go? Already it is the seventh. I have slept little, exercised rarely, eaten sporadically, and have been rewarded with two mid term A’s, an A paper, an A quiz. All A’s. It feels like too small a reward. Though most of you, my dearest friends were…
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Napowrimo Day 6, Pocahontas
Today’s poem is another response to a prompt from Richard at Poetic Asides. This prompt was to write and ekphrastic poem. John Drury’s Poetry Dictionary, defines ekphrastic poetry as “Poetry that imitates, describes, critiques, dramatizes, reflects upon, or otherwise responds to a work of nonliterary art, especially the visual.” Of the two works provided (I…
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Napowrimo Easter Poem
Running a bit late wit this! Yikes, I should be caught up shortly. I hope your Easter was as peaceful as it should be. Egg Versus Cross The Calvanist is hard on the Easter egg– “Fickle colored distraction, keeping children happily numb to sin and terrors of crucifixion.” But if the stories are true, Friday…
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NaPoWriMo, Day 3
Yes, I know, I’m running a bit late here. I had the idea for this on Saturday (and to me it’s still Sunday night, as I have not yet gone to bed), but working at the Station went late so here it is. I’ll hopefully be back on track after classes tomorrow. Here is Day…
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National Poetry Writing Month
Well there is a National Ice Cream Month (July, thanks to Ronny Reagan), National Blood Donor Month (though that seems like it would be draining), National Soup Month, and a National Hemorrhoid Prevention Month (OK, OK, so I made that one up), so why not National Poetry Month? Great idea, right? Well, too late, the…
