No poem yesterday--just couldn't get into the prompt. Maybe I'll find something to go with it today, but I can't say I'm all that worried about it. Today's options were to write a hopeless or a hopeful poem. This one isn't really hopeless, but it does look at a discouraging situation that anyone who's ever … Continue reading Day 27
Poetic License
About a month ago, I saw a story about a project being put together by a brand new production company. The project was called "Poetic License 100 Poems 100 Performers" and the idea was to get actors to perform their favorite poems, package it into a CD, and sell it during National Poetry Month. They … Continue reading Poetic License
Day 25
Prompt for today was to write a poem inspired by a song. This is even harder to do well, in my opinion, than an ekphrastic poem, just because music is so ubiquitous and so often repurposed that to do it in a poem seems cliché from the start. And it's also very easy to come … Continue reading Day 25
Day 24
Today's prompt was for an evening poem, so I went with a metaphor of balanced equations, an evening out as it were. The initial image comes from the park where Amy and I took a walk this afternoon. Some men were sitting under a group of pine trees on a blanket, and a very brave … Continue reading Day 24
Diversity in Voices
In a very powerful piece in the Guardian, Bidisha writes about how she's tired of being the token woman in the British arts scene, and about how women are consistently underrepresented in reviews, on panels, and in other venues. Her numbers speak for themselves: "I felt it [nausea] when I saw this week's edition of … Continue reading Diversity in Voices
Day 23
Today's prompt was to write an exhaustion poem, and given the time of the semester, and the length of my Thursdays, it would have been pretty easy to go with physical exhaustion as a topic. But I also felt like that would come off as self-absorbed whining, especially given that my current job is far … Continue reading Day 23
Day 22
Just jammed this out in the break between classes. It's an earth poem, and that's really all I think I need to tell you about it. It's pretty straightforward. I knew that learning the Greek alphabet while in the fraternity would pay off one day. Earth is not alpha and omega; more like iota and … Continue reading Day 22
Day 21
The prompt for today is to write a poem with the phrase "According to" in the title. One of my favorite terms is "according to studies" because it has the air of authority while being so vague as to have no meaning at all--perhaps it even offers a negative measure of meaning because of that … Continue reading Day 21
Day 20
Today's poem is cynical, but the prompt asks us to look back, and while I write a lot about my past, I try not to do so with any sense of regret or nostalgia. I hate nostalgia--there's no greater lie we tell ourselves as humans, I think, than the one in which we imagine a … Continue reading Day 20
Day 19
Today's prompt asked for a name in the title, and I tossed this one around for a while before deciding. I wrote one to Amy last night, and I've written a lot to my daughter and parents and so on. I considered writing about my best friend in high school, the one who I looked … Continue reading Day 19
Another Poem to Love 