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, August 23rd, 2022
Prompts:
1.
"a woman’s windchimes"
"rotten bullet seeds"
"inside a plane"
2. Is there a place, a situation or a person you had to break away from? Was it a “perfect day?” How or how not?
3. Choose an object; compare how it looks up close to how it looks from a distance.
Thursday, August 25th, 2022
"I Attend a Poetry Reading" by Steve Kowit and as read by the author
Prompts:
1.
"we had to get to in the morning"
"Lurid bullfight posters"
"I knew that I had died"
2. What’s your idea of hell?
3. The most memorable poetry reading you ever went to...?
Friday, August 25th, 2022
"To the French Language" by Kenneth Koch
Prompts:
1.
"And one April morning, when I woke up, I had you / Stuck to the tip of my tongue"
"But I have loved you. That’s no flattering statement / But the truth."
"Even when the theater had no people in it"
2. If you have a second language or a second culture, describe that relationship. Or is there a particular language or cultures you would like to explore?
3. Describe one place in the world with all the passion you can muster.
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