“Deaths on Other Planets” has won Asimov’s Science Fiction‘s Readers’ Awards for Best Poem of 2008. (You can read it here.) Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Trying to maintain
Month: April 2009
Progress: Using the fake-translation exercise I mentioned in my last progress update, I wrote a short, weird poem about rhyme. Today I wrote a short,
“my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell” by Gwendolyn Brooks
“The Bull Calf” by Irving Layton
Progress: Wrote a kind of weird little poem riffing off the Denise Levertov poem linked below. Prompt for today: Find a poem in another language,
“Everything that Acts Is Actual” by Denise Levertov
1976 Swine Flu Propaganda (via MeFi)
Progress: Yesterday I wrote a pantoum that plays off Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers” and today I wrote a cinquain. Prompt for
“Summerland” by David McGimpsey
“Two Poems for Frank O’Hara” by Campbell McGrath