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NaPoWriMo poem & prompt #8

Friday, April 8, 2011

Read some prose poems, like “Be Drunk” by Charles Baudelaire or some by Charles Simic, and then write one. (You can do this prompt even if your name isn’t Charles.)

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Together with daily horrors,/Life doles out these small pleasures

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Read “Past the Cemetery” by Charles Simic.

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The bored seagull lifts a leg now and then/And forgets to put it down.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Read “Late September” by Charles Simic.

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The little/Wife always alone/Ironing death’s laundry.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Read “Eyes Fastened With Pins” by Charles Simic.

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What is behind it?

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

It hangs from heaven to earth. There are trees in it, cities, rivers, small pigs and moons. – read “Tapestry” by Charles Simic

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I had a small, nonspeaking part/In a bloody epic.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Just finished reading Charles Simic‘s The Voice at 3 A.M.: Selected Late & New Poems. (Everybody here was very proud and excited to have two Poet Laureates from New Hampshire in a row, one of them him, the other, of course, Donald Hall, and so I got a book by each of them—Hall’s being The [...]

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