Firestarter Challenge (9/17/07) Week 8’s Great!
Firestarter Challenge Week 7 Title: Granular
(the categories of the exercises will change weekly)
- First Line: (take a line from a famous poet and use that to jumpstart your poem. “The flesh covers the bone” from Alone with everybody By Charles Bukowski.
- Imagery: An address book floating in the toilet.
- Form: Concrete Poetry. I know what you’re thinking, how lame, no one likes that gimmick anymore, so you’ve been told. And yes, it is shunned, but it’s also something to experiment with, play with while you’re trying to feel out the boundaries of your own poetry, and help you remember that white space is very important to the poem. Here’s how to write Concrete Poetry.
- Music: Use \A\ sound as much as you can without overdoing it. How much is that? Trial and error will show you the way.
- Color: Fuchsia.