Sun Ra says: "WHAT PLANET IS THIS?/ Is this a planet of life or death?" This is a poem about the capacity to choose more than a life of consuming and reproducing death.
Benjamin Krusling on "all that atheist shit done" |
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"How a Poet Teaches her Children Poetry"
"In my house, we won't do anything much differently this month. I've always talked about poetry with my kids the way chefs probably talk to their kids about food. It's just part of life. Instilling a love of poetry in my children started before they could read. It started with play and imagination—low stakes, no pressure. Even when my kids were toddlers, I would encourage them to play with figurative language."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Laila Malik on "the organic properties of sand"
"In the petroleum economies of al Khaleej (as elsewhere), there exist micro-universes of so-called expats, a blossoming confusion of recent arrivals and longstanding, multi-generational clans, the newly affluent and then those others who live at the porous boundaries of the less desirable micro-universe of outsiders, migrant workers." |
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Write with Poetry Daily This April, to celebrate National Poetry Month, we'll share popular writing prompts from our "What Sparks Poetry" essay series each morning. Write along with us!
Consider a household item that wears away/gets used up. Include in your poems vast shifts in scale and scope (from morning shower to fall of Babylon, for example). Try accompanying those movements with tonal shifts, so that the poem may begin lightly and turn more serious, or vice versa. Jody Gladding |
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