Blood Ode
fat girl nicks herself shaving in the shower,
resents the water that will carry her
blood to sea. Blood, worthless currency,
cannot buy a country but becomes it,… Read More
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- Tell us about your poet
- Materials: Give us some poems (including the ones you’ll be referring to)
- Conduct a close reading of one poem
- Point out elements, ticks or other
During PLAN week, we offer information to help you plan your next steps—from choosing classes and learning how to register to finding out where to get support and make connections
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Take a look at the following contemporary poets. Choose your top 5 picks to present on and post as a comment.
*Also, please send me poems to submit to City … Read More
- Who is speaking to whom? Through what mask? For what ostensible purpose?
- Is the poem unified? Are there lines or words that don’t belong, that don’t fit in respect to
STREET SONNET
slightly adapted from Matthew Rohrer
- Take a fourteen block walk. For each block, you will write one line. You might want to choose a neighborhood you aren’t
I’m dangerous; there’s little left
inside this body —
that hasn’t wanted not to subtract
from the world.
I can divide a man into men. This
isn’t a warning
or
Read and Respond to the three poems being workshopped (folder here). Post your responses on one doc in this folder.
