The moderator for this week is Trina!
Trina Gaynon's poems appear in Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, other anthologies, numerous journals, and a chapbook An Alphabet of Romance from Finishing Line Press. Her book Quince, Rose, Grace of God is forthcoming from Fernwood Press. She currently leads a group of poetry readers at the Senior Studies Institute in Portland and participates in the Ars Poetica community.
Some days I believe that every poem I write is in defiance of the silences that Tillie Olsen explored. Some days I am filled with the ego Richard Hugo described as "the next thing you put down belongs not for reasons of logic, good sense, or narrative development, but because you put it there."
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
"Greensickness" by Laurel Chen
Prompts:
1. “Wildest grief grew inside out.” or “Every wound closes.”
2. Imagine how this world might end.
3. Chose a color and an emotion and pour everything in you into them.
Thursday, October 27, 2022
"Diaspora Sonnet 55" by Oliver de la Paz
Poet's Note: I composed this thinking back on the days when my family had just arrived in the US after fleeing the Philippines after Marcos declared martial law. While we were waiting to get our lives together my family took on odd jobs. It’s one poem in a longer sequence of sonnets tracking my immediate and extended family’s journey as we tried to find a place where we could feel safe. This poem and others are forthcoming in a book entitled THE DIASPORA SONNETS. (Liveright Press 2023).
Prompts:
1. “In a different country I might have been royalty.”
2. Where can you shout your name?
3. Describe a job that left an impression on you. How did it define you or not?
Friday, October 28, 2022
"September, 1918" by Amy Lowell
Prompts:
1. “houses ran along them laughing”
2. Describe a day whose memory is sweet.
3. What do you put in a lunchbox to protect from a broken world?
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