Saturday, March 31, 2018

National Poetry Month 2018

Dear Readers,

It's that time of year again.

For the ninth year running I will be writing a poem a day for April - as it has been arbitrarily designated "National Poetry Month". I stole the idea for this project from Jon Berger, whose prolific output is always an inspiration.

The first incarnation was in 2010, so if the apocryphal idea about our cells regenerating every seven years is to be believed, I am an entirely different person than I was when I started this project. I'll leave it up to you to decide if that's a good thing.

All poems this April will be tweet-length, because even if time is an illusion it is a rare commodity these days.

The rules:

- I have compiled a list of 54 prompts, each assigned to a different playing card

- In the morning I draw a card to select a prompt

- I write a poem on that prompt that contains 280 or less characters

- By the end of the day I post it here (but not on Twitter because fuck those guys)

The complete list is below:


2CThe Big Bang Theory
2DSandy Hook Truthers
2HRick Santorum's Nonsense
2SThe Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer
3CApocalyptic Visions
3DThe XFL
3HDesnudas
3SRepublicans in Name Only
4CDead Leaves
4DDead Dogs
4HDead Friends
4SAll Dead, All Dead
5CCoded Language
5DStatue at Lee Circle
5HOrbits
5SObits
6CFyre Festival
6DWoodstock '99
6HBen & Jerry's Free Cone Day
6SThe Hindenburg
7CLucky Numbers
7DWild Cards
7HParabolas
7SRafts
8CChain Smokers
8DOne Republic
8HImagine Dragons
8STwenty-One Pilots
9COver The Garden Wall
9DSteven Universe
9HHelium
9SSteamed Hams
10COverload Cookies
10DMagic Cards
10HThe Cube
10SYellow Rat Bastard
JCBlack Holes
JDTwin Theory
JHThe Hubble Telescope
JSThe Space Force
QCThe Lemon Ice King of Corona
QDThe Noguchi Museum
QHSunnyside
QSShea Stadium
KCInnana
KDBa'al
KHOrpheus and Eurydice
KSScylla and Charybdis
ACPoints
ADLines
AHCircles
ASSpirals
JokerBlackSpace
JokerRedTime

Thanks for reading friends, acquaintances, secret admirers, secret scorners, lost loves, bored hackers, lonely bots, and people who opened this link by mistake.

Poem #1 will be posted here sometime tomorrow. In the meantime, happy National Clam on the Half Shell Day!

- Z

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

POTATOES AND MOLASSES!

Zach said...

Hooray!