✽elle écrit✽: Poetic Form: Septolet

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Poetic Form: Septolet

Lepidoptera
Freed
from the
shadows,

papery moths flutter
against porch lights
searching for
the moon.

2 comments:

Rallentanda said...: This is a lovely one. My favourites..Siberia and this!; February 12, 2011 at 5:26 AM
Marianne said...: Thanks, Rall! I just found this form. I love it!; February 14, 2011 at 1:52 PM

sidewalk poetry

Marcus Young, Saint Paul’s artist in residence, started an annual sidewalk poetry contest in 2008. St. Paul residents were invited to enter the contest to have their poems permanently installed in city sidewalks. Young conceived the idea after learning about the public works department’s annual sidewalk replacement program. Because of age and deterioration, the city replaces about 10 miles of sidewalk each year. “I like the unlikely pairing of poetry and sidewalk replacement,” Young said. “Sidewalks are clearly a necessity, yet creating beauty and mystery with public art is equally important. We must build well both the hard durable structures of our city and the soft spaces for our collective imagination." My poem, November, was one of the five poems chosen to be installed in 2009.

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Poetic Form: Septolet

2 comments: