Jennifer Lane Books – Romance with a Psychological Twist
Grow Mercy
Description: ideas, ponderings & poems
The big finale! Like every April that I attempt a poem-a-day challenge, the month has flown by, and I can barely remember anything I wrote. May becomes a quieter month, of re-reading and polishing.
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt asked for a cento, which is a form I have never tried before. This is a poem that is made up of lines taken from other poems. If you’d like to dig into an in-depth example, here’s John Ashbery’s cento “ The Dong with the Luminous Nose ,” and here it is again , fully annotated to show where every line originated.
My lines come from a variety of poems posted under the Poetry Foundation’s “ Poetry and the Environment ” category. I plan to post an annotated version of this, listing all the poems and poets, when I get a chance. But for now it comes incomplete, but appropriate, on a day when I’m about to host a workshop and reading at the Edmonton Poetry Festival about poems that address the climate crisis.
Jennifer Lane Books – Romance with a Psychological Twist
Grow Mercy