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Writer's pictureTrina Gaynon

Writing Workshop Week of 7/4/2022

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

The prompt poem for today is Flight, from The Book of the Edge by Ece Temelkuran, Deniz Perin trans.


Some writing suggestions:

  • Try beginning a poem with “During. . . before. . . . It creates an interesting frisson regarding time.

  • What would be a sign to you that you had “wholly embarked upon the journey?”

  • The poem continues for several more pages. A recurring theme is that of coming to know or belong to yourself. Explore a journey when this was possible for you.

 
Thursday

The prompt poem for today is Pattern and Snarl by Amit Majmudar


Some writing suggestions:

  • The sonzal is a form Majmudar created. Try one.

Sonzal- combination of Eastern Ghazal, Western Sonnet

14 lines, using rhyme and repetition of final words in lines

Couplets that can stand alone

Often takes a turn after the first eight lines

Refers to the writer, often by name, in the last couplet

  • What is it about order that we love? Or hate?

  • What snarls your patterns?

 
Friday

The prompt poem for today is Return by Robinson Jeffers


Some writing suggestions:

  • What time is it for you or for us as a nation?

  • Describe where you go to escape from thinking.

  • Which animal do you identify with or see as an one to emulate?

 

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