The moderator for this week is Trina!
Moderator bio:
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
Today's prompt poem is I’ve meant to tell you many things about my life by Alice Notley
Some suggestions for writing:
What is your center? What arises out of it?
Use of simile “like a passionate love for a ghost”
Poem as ars poetica
Thursday
Today's prompt poem is Water Dreams by Stephanie Niu
Some suggestions for writing:
Begin with a dream
Try writing with both active and passive verbs
What does your mother need to tell you or you to tell your mother?
Friday
Today's prompt poem is Belief by Josephine Miles
Some suggestions for writing:
Try on the voice of fictional character(s) possibly as a monologue
Explore the idea of moral luck. For example, two people (brothers) can begin from very similar backgrounds with the same intentions and still have very different results.
“We know that luck enters into our lives in countless ways. It affects our success and our happiness. We might well think, however, that morality is the one arena in which luck has no power. Consider what we might call a person’s “moral standing”—an expression we can use to stand for all the sorts of moral difference luck might be thought to make. Luck, we might think, cannot alter one’s moral standing one bit. This seems a reasonable position, but it is a position both Nagel and Williams cast into doubt.” from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“If the H-bomb exploded. . . .” Or a more immediate disaster occurred. . . .
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