Tag: blackout poem
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A Subconscious Exercise
Haven’t done one of these in a while! Lately I’ve been trying to use more creative exercises (not strictly writing; in fact some that are specifically in other creative areas, like art and music) to better and more fully exercise my subconscious. I feel like much of the work of crafting stories happens off the…
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NaPoMo, Day 20: The dungeon
The dungeon (fear, fear) of nightmare hums, drones, smells of fire, wings, empurpled oblivion — Madly we Look on and despair.
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NaPoMo, Day 19: triumph
triumph is heavy: in the crown of old wars a broken king calls for more wine
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NaPoMo, Day 18: maybe it’s
Today’s BLUE-out poem for National Poetry Month: maybe it’s lack of world lack of time lack of motivation lackadaisical rats running on a wheel of days But it’s no excuse
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NaPoMo, Day 16: Proof!
Today’s blackout poem, in observance of National Poetry Month, reads thus: proof! he proclaims. more important is the space opened up by dream: the jumpman at the edge of order imagining his hour
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NaPoMo, Day 15: love is such wilderness
It’s the start of Blackout Week here at The Read Room! To celebrate National Poetry Month, this week I am composing one blackout poem a day. A blackout poem, for those unfamiliar with them, is a poem written via erasure or “blacking out” text on a given page. You start with an article, a column,…
Julie Israel 