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 14: Retell a Myth
Returning to Bernadette Mayer’s experiments, in today’s experiment, I retell a myth. Mayer suggests: ‘read or write a story or myth, write it five or ten times at intervals from memory. Make a poem from this’. Read here about another strange “quarandream” and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Experiment 6: Write about one day in minute detail
Poetry experiment 6 from quarantine: write about one day in minute detail.
You can listen and read “Spot the Difference” here!
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)
Experiment 2: Ripping up a Textbook
In today’s poetry experiment, I will be ripping up a page from an Economics textbook, and attempting to write a poem about childhood from the fragments.