For the first few weeks of quarantine, I will be writing poems using various writing experiments that you can try at home. For instance, I’ll rip up a science book and try to write a poem from the fragments, I’ll speak and write only in questions for a day, I’ll write a “mirror” poem to an existing one, experiment with every existing form, and so on!
Experiment 5: A Spine Poem
In today’s experiment, we have a spine poem inspired by the book covers on my bookshelf!
Experiment 4: Google Translate Poems
I passed one of my poems through ten languages in Google Translate and now have some truly strange phrases to work with…
Experiment 3: Exploding Kittens
Today, I decided to put my edition of Exploding Kittens to use. What resulted was perhaps the most unpoetic collection of words I have ever been faced with…(read more)