The moderator for this week is Abby!
Abigail Licad is an immigrant from the Philippines, a former editor-in-chief for Hyphen magazine, a full-on feminist, a diehard Tori Amos fan, a mediocre classical pianist, a dog mama, a chocolate fiend, a terrible cook, a succulent addict, a lover of sending care packages, and a poetry junkie through and through. She has no tattoos and lives in Portland, Oregon.
Tuesday, November 8th, 2022 "Between God's Eyelashes I Look at You" by Jose Garcia Villa 1. Respond to or incorporate one of the following passages in your poem:
"Between God's eyelashes I look at you"
"[...] I'll dash/To thy coasts, O mortal flesh."
"By my force of love He'll be broken"
2. Write about something you are drawn to yet still try to resist (a person you are attracted to or whom you envy, chocolate, a specific sin, etc.), or something that you tend to do but shouldn't (picking at a scab, getting into a Twitter argument, reading nasty and or useless comments on Facebook, etc.). 3. Write a prayer in the form of a poem.
Thursday, November 10th, 2022
"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden 1. Respond to or incorporate one of the following passages in your poem:
"[...] put his clothes on in the blueblack cold"
"[...] fearing the chronic angers of that house"
"[...] love's austere and lonely offices"
2. Write a poem about a parent and illustrate their acts of love and sacrifice, and explore how you received them. 3. Write about something you regret. Some examples are: a dream or goal you've abandoned or failed to reach, a person you've mistreated or taken for granted, a kindness you've never repaid or been able to repay, a lie you've told, etc.
Friday, November 11th, 2022
"Coal" by Audre Lorde 1. Respond to or incorporate one of the following passages in your poem:
"There are many kinds of open."
"Some words are open/Like a diamond on glass windows/Singing out within the crash of passing sun"
"Some words live in my throat/Breeding like adders."
2. Pick a single word, any word, that "[b]edevils" you and explore its various meanings and significances. You can pick a noun and use it as a metaphor as shown in Lorde's poem, or a pronoun, or a verb. Some examples are below:
Water
Air
Freedom
We
You
Rise
Fight
3. Write a poem that starts with the pronoun "I" and describe yourself.
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