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.
Prompt for Monday, August 28, 2023
“myth as latter life” by Regina Garcia
(Originally published in The AutoEthnographer, A Literary & Arts Magazine as the final poem in a three-part poem cycle)
1. Respond to or incorporate one of the following passages in your poem:
“out crawls the solid form of / what has been living / as essence /as whisper / as rumor / as silence talk in corners”
“we watch wince feel”
“our strategy must change”
2. Write a poem that modernizes an age-old story or character, whether from ancient myths, fairy tales, scripture, etc. You could imagine a different storyline or ending resulting from applying contemporary contexts, or render the character in a more iconoclastic mode as in the examples below:
Eve joining the modern-day feminist movement and leaving Adam
The prince in Cinderella loses his kingdom and riches due to a rebellion by former colonies
Jesus falls in love and debates marriage
3. What would be contained in the Pandora’s box of our time? What troubles or problems have uniquely been created or caused by the boomers, Gen X, and millenial generations?
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