✽elle écrit✽: cleave poem

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Napowrimo #14: you want me to write a what?

Prompt for Day 14
Write a cleave poem. A cleave poem is three poems in one. According to the creator of the form, Dr. Phuoc-Tan Diep: “In its most basic form it is three poems: two parallel ‘vertical’ poems (left and right)…[with] a third ‘horizontal’ poem being the fusion of the vertical poems read together.”

IN A TEMPER
All day it brews at a slow simmer burning in the pit of her stomach
Bubbles of anger rise to the surface gnawing at her; ready to burst
Rage claims her mind sapping her energy, growing stronger
Her bad mood blazes furious words explode
like pieces of an asteroid fragmenting in a perfect April sky.

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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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Napowrimo #14: you want me to write a what?