Your Eyes Deep as the dirt in our garden their beauty fresh like the cherry tomatoes and lettuce plucked away on September mornings. When the sun rose ever so early accompanied by a breeze sharp like your gaze and as cold as time apart. Yet […]
Year: 2023
Drafty-Draft Reflection & Final
There were a couple things I really noticed change over the course of my drafting. First off, was the word choice for describing different elements going on in my poem. I had to think of different words to represent time moving or seasons changing. Throughout […]
Secret Poem #4
Marked The yellow sponge rubs itself harshly against my white plate remanence of the night before crusted to its surface a blood-like splatter of pasta sauce overshadows the white pureness beneath I continue to scrub until pain finds its home in my fingers and knuckles […]
Journal #4
The first artist book that I chose to focus on was the New England Cottontail book. From the first scroll through the options, it caught my eye for multiple reasons and caused me to stop. First off, the color scheme and artwork got me. I […]
Journal #3
I really enjoyed this chapter because it focused on something I consider a struggle of mine in poetry. It discussed the idea of the image and its interplay with meaning when correctly utilized through writing. Imagery is something that has been instilled in me since […]
Historical Imaging
MLA Citation for image: Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. “Gay Contingent, Vietnam War protest march, New York, November 6, 1971” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1971. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d76e44b0-1db9-0137-30dd-375357ba407c
Poem #2
Prompt: What do you do everyday— or on a regular basis? My delicate fingers lift the thin needle in the air and feeling its familiarity. I methodically place it against the rounded disc For I have memorized each groove, the song associated, and tune it […]
Graded Poetry Exercise #1
Prompt #3 To tuck an olive branch away in the corner of my mind leaving the berries to rot and leaves to wilt To spit bitter words and draw back my giving hand allowing hate to fester in its bones To refuse to forgive and […]
Journal #2
I think the concept of “bag stuffing” that is mentioned at the beginning of the chapter is both interesting and important. From the time we are born and through our lives we are conditioned beings. Meaning we are taught by other human beings, typically parens, […]
Journal #1
The most interesting use of the artist book I found in this article was Stephen Willats and his book ‘Taking the Short Cut’. I really enjoyed the idea he brought in regard to social interaction and community engagement. He took one common factor of individuals […]
