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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"Joy Harjo and Her Poetencies"
"My favorite ritual is to get up and acknowledge the sun and this life. Then I ask for help, in whatever I am doing. I like to get up while I’m still asleep and to stay in that mode—a liminal mode between dreaming and wake—and just write without thinking. Often, that earliest stuff is rich, rich with the deep earth, where there’s both coal and diamonds."
via NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE |
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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!
Write a litany about what it is like to have or not have US citizenship in the 21st century. Using repetition for pattern and catalogue for expansion, pay particular attention to the mundane, to what you can or cannot take for granted, to whom/what you gain and whom/what you lose. Cynthia Dewi Oka |
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