write an aubade (a song from a door or window to a sleeping woman, a morning love song). … the land is quiet between us for months we face this […]
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e— reads aya dickinson on the new world
napowrimo prompt 5: rewrite a poem from emily dickinson with your own spacing and punctuation. i did this, as well as adding some interjections from queen aya, who claims not […]
aya and e— speak of emotion (4/30)
day 4 prompt: I challenge you to write a “loveless” love poem. Don’t use the word love! And avoid the flowers and rainbows. … aya and e— speak of emotion […]
nanowrimo
i am writing a draft of a novel! i had an incredible experience with napowrimo, national poetry writing month. i spent april writing a poem each day and remembering how […]
napowrimo poem 30: for her, in amsterdam
prompt: write a farewell poem. for her, in amsterdam what is more precious than these salt stained kisses frantic lovers’ bruises the look in our liberated eyes our scent, now […]
napowrimo poem 29: it is our time to turn
prompt: use “Twenty Little Poetry Projects” all in one poem. chameleon in my garden i watch your skin go soft as you change again the world around you shifts your […]
napowrimo poem 28: woman problem
prompt: find a news article, and write a poem using (mostly, if not only) words from the article. i chose this article on gender disparity shared by my good friend […]
napowrimo poem 26: when they chose forever
prompt: write a curtal sonnet. today’s poem is for my beautiful brilliant sweet sister april, my dear friend and comrade and protector and teacher. today she married her beloved brad […]
napowrimo poem 24: or lean (mason’s love poem)
prompt: write a poem that features walls, bricks, stones, arches, or the like – the work of a mason. then after i had placed one brick, and another day after […]
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napowrimo poem 23: xhosa sounds
prompt: find a poem in a language you don’t know, and translate it into english based on the look of the words and their sounds. i am writing a story […]