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, September 4, 2023
“Social Skills Training” by Somaz Sharif
1. Respond to or incorporate one of the following passages in your poem:
“Gloria Steinem says women lose power as they age/and yet the loudest voice in my head is my mother.”
“Studies show to negate something is to think it anyway.”
“History is a kind of study.”
2. Write a poem explaining why “the baby monkey/will pick the fake monkey with fake fur over the furless wire monkey with milk, without contest” – why touch and physical connection might be more important than food and bodily nourishment.
3. List other types of social skills training that you’ve received or experienced. How have you been taught to respond or protect yourself before power?
Prompt for Friday, September 8, 2023
“Like You” by Roque Dalton
1. Incorporate or respond to one of the following passages in your poem:
“I laugh through eyes/that have known the buds of tears.”
“poetry, like bread, is for everyone”
“my veins don’t end in me”
2. Write an ars poetica about your own poetry writing process.
3. Write your own poetry manifesto. Below are some questions you might address:
What is your ideal poem like? Describe its features and characteristics.
Why do you write?
Whom do you write for? Who is your ideal audience?
What effect/s do you wish your poetry to have?
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