Most of the excitement this week is in Denver at the AWP Conference, but there's still plenty to talk about in poetry. For instance, have you been keeping up with our National Poetry Month project? We're only a third of a way through April, so there's plenty of time to catch up on your reading. … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
Day 10
Write a horror poem. Except I don't really do horror. Never liked horror movies--the closest I've ever come to liking one was "Shaun of the Dead." Even monster movies didn't do anything for me as a kid, and today's torture porn? Ugh. No thanks. But it turns out I did have something to pull from … Continue reading Day 10
Celebrating 300 Years of Copyright
Counterpoint asked "a lot of people" (as Cory Doctorow put it) to reflect on the world of copyright on the 300th anniversary of the passage of Queen Anne's Law, and to look at how copyright is being used (or abused) today, as well as how it might need to evolve. I've only read a handful … Continue reading Celebrating 300 Years of Copyright
Day 9
Today is a self-portrait, and so I decided to go back to some ground I covered 8 or 9 years ago when I discovered that my father had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease since, like my father, like all of us really, who I am is tied up with the workings of my brain. … Continue reading Day 9
Day 8
Thursdays are going to be brutal for me in getting this done this month, mostly because I have such a long workday, and fitting a poem into an already taxing schedule is rough. Today's challenge was to write a poem about a tool, and while I admit I was considering making a joke of it, … Continue reading Day 8
Day 7
Another title prompt--this one asks you to use the word "until" in the title. This one also took me a while to get into, but I'm not completely disappointed with the final product. Just a side note about the way I feel about these poems: I'm self-deprecating about my writing in the first place--it's a … Continue reading Day 7
Day 6
Today is an ekphrastic poem, i.e. one which responds to a work of non-literary art. I've been kicking this idea around in my head for a few weeks now--okay, years, since I noticed the change in this particular piece just a few weeks after Hurricane Wilma came though south Florida in 2005. Here's what it … Continue reading Day 6
Day 5
Today's prompt is for a TMI poem, and I just didn't feel that. Not that I'm shy about sharing--in fact, if you follow my twitter feed or become a Facebook friend of mine, you'll discover that I'm often guilty of overshare. My problem was more that I just don't like to write grossout poems, and … Continue reading Day 5
Day 4
A history poem, huh? I didn't really know where to go with this, since in a lot of ways, most poems I write are history poems--they're histories of my time as a Jehovah's Witness or my relationship with Amy or my daughter or any of the other moments in my life, and I didn't want … Continue reading Day 4
Poetic Lives Online
Have you been keeping up with our National Poetry Month project? The list is updated every morning with new poemy goodness. Along with National Poetry Month, the big discussion this week seems to be the AWP Convention. WILLA has three days planned for you, if you need suggestions. I won't be at the AWP this … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
Another Poem to Love 