I agree with Jess, I also really enjoyed hearing Cathy Park Hong. I think getting to know her as a person really made me appreciate her poetry more. It's always neat getting to hear what an author or poet or musician feels/thinks. I also liked her new stuff.
Did anyone go to the reading? How was it?
So, I've decided to do a beautiful outlaw poem for this next assignment, and it's been much harder than I thought. I was sitting in the library with Charles and was like, "Give me a word that is longer than 4 letters," and he shot back "Contradiction", so I've been working with that word. It's fun so far (I'm actually procrastinating with this blog entry) and it forces me to search for vocabulary (although, I'm trying not to use words I wouldn't normally use, because I think that will come off stuffy and pretentious).
Anyways, the beautiful outlaw poem is one where the first sentence or line or stanza will not have the first letter of the word you are writing about in it. (so my first stanza has no c. the second stanza has no O, etc.)
The poem itself is about contradiction, so that's also been hard to try and do this new structure with a narrative involved.
I hope you enjoy it, and see you all Tuesday!
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