OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Body Horror: Write a poem about the thing or things that scare you about the human body. This could be a fun day to do a spoken poem. To create a spoken poem, record yourself speaking the poem as it comes to you then copy down what you said, and useContinue reading “Oct. 19 Prompts: Screams in the Night”
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Tiny Little Slivers
Today’s prompt for Quadrille (a poem of exactly forty-four words) Monday at dVerse Poets Pub is “sliver.” Tiny Little Slivers summer barefoot joyrunning on docks and decksoften leaves a tiny sliver the smallest almost invisible splinter deep under the skin creating a stabbing painto the touchsharp and lingeringlike the stabin the backslivering its wayto theContinue reading “Tiny Little Slivers”
Review of My Seattle Summer Reading Bingo Card & My New Thriller Reading Bingo Card
I’m glad I decided to participate in the Seattle Arts and Lectures summer reading book bingo this year. The categories suggested for each square led me to variety of books and many great book discoveries that I most likely wouldn’t have found other wise. Below is the list of the squares starting in the topContinue reading “Review of My Seattle Summer Reading Bingo Card & My New Thriller Reading Bingo Card”
Calvino’s Sixth: The unwritten memo – consistency
This week completes my study of Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium. Calvino died before writing this final lecture in his series on values of literature. So I get to extrapolate from the other memos and imagine his ideas of consistency as a literary value. I found Andrei Codrescu’s attempt to do justContinue reading “Calvino’s Sixth: The unwritten memo – consistency”
It’s Not Easy to Eagle a Mergansered Verb to a Terrible Appointment
Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to write a response poem to another poem. The PAD challenge is to write an appointments poem. My Janus word for the A to Z Challenge is terrible which can mean formidable, or lousy. Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt inspired me to head over to ModPo on coursera to listen to and readContinue reading “It’s Not Easy to Eagle a Mergansered Verb to a Terrible Appointment”
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