"Denver East Student Poet Reclaims His Voice"
"When the Denver East High gunman started shooting on March 22, he didn’t just rob his classmates of their security and their freedom of movement. In a very real way, he also took their voices. Senior Patrick Pethybridge, 18, was moments away from reading a unity poem at a packed morning assembly when the school went on lockdown. A teacher issued the immediate, emphatic command: 'Silence!'"
via THE DENVER GAZETTE |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Karen Leona Anderson on "Rat"
"To write vermin is to ask then who makes them faceless and liquid, seething, scheming, malicious, too much, over and over; who feeds them and then turns away, repulsed. (Was it me? Of course.) It’s to ask who is at home, inside; who is outside. Why vermin are women’s fault and their shadow, their shame and their labor, how making vermin is so much work to do and undo and who that work is for." |
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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! Choose a poem you like. Count the syllables in each line (if you have an ear for word stress, or a good dictionary, which will tell you which syllables in a word are stressed, locate the stressed syllables in each line as well). Write you own poem of the same length as the poem you have chosen, with the same syllable count in each line (and, if you have located the stressed syllables, with the stressed syllables in your lines in the same positions they occupy in the lines of the source poem), but, in each line, use none of the same words as are used in the corresponding line of the source poem, except for conjunctions, simple and double prepositions, and articles. Shane McCrae |
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