Engaging your inner poet—
don’t be afraid to experiment
allow words to flow and create their own form—
it is okay to break rules as long as you know what rules you are breaking 🙂
disrupt linearity and words—
create the unexpected
it’s naff to say, but compul—
—sory to do. Indentured blakwork, something like:
nine to five, forgiv—
—ing you. (Whittaker, Blakwork, 2018)
experimenting with the rules creates alternative borders—a different way to engage
don’t be afraid to rework and interpret form poems like odes, elegies, haikus, sonnets—play with the forms, invert their purpose, create a contemporary interpretation.
play with new ideas in your poetry, respond to other poets, disrupt, invert, create musicality and sound—
have fun experimenting.
RESOURCES
Poem for the Breasts, by Sharon Olds [Text & Reading]
Ode to the Hymen, by Sharon Olds [Text & Reading]
Howl, by Amy Newman [Text]
Blakwork, by Alison Whittaker [Text]
A Love Like Dorothea’s, by Alison Whittaker [Text]
A Love Like Dorothea’s, by Alison Whittaker [Reading]
Calenture, by Lindsay Tuggle [Text and Reading]
Two poems: Flushing, New York and Omen, by Grace Q Song [Text]
Multi-media poem, by Various authors [Multi-media]
From The Book of the Dead: Absalom, by Muriel Rukeyser [Text]
Australia, by Ania Walwicz [Text]
Horse, by Ania Walwicz [Performance]