I'm tired of coming up with poem ideas, so this week I read a book: April Galleons by John Asberry. I'm not usually a big fan of Ashberry, (just don't get it ) but I did enjoy the book a lot more than I thought I would. Interesting thing: anyone who remembers the Roethke exercise that involves a bank of words and a lot of rules--every one of these poems has one of those words in it. Gotcha Ashberry! And you thought you could just sneak 'tarmac' in there and no one would think anything of it. I went through the poems and pulled out some words I like, which I plan on using in a few poems this week. I was like, ruffle !! I love ruffle . Then I typed a bunch of them into polyvore to make a collage. Here are the words I used: plum, ruffle, spot, sleek, proper, ribbon, and clean. April Galleons by parrotflower a huge list of Ashberry words follows: vetiver smudges fishhook sleek mood sawdust hat bank plum taste thin floor sharp stick scrub door shave shake tactics ship...
Feminism, poetry, poetics.