STEP 2.1: NARRATIVE/NON-NARRATIVE inspired by SMARTISH PACE
August 9th, 2009
Welcome to the fourth and final week of our SUMMER CHALLENGE! This week we’ll feature Smartish Pace, a journal out of Baltimore edited by Stephen Reichert. And now … this week’s prompt!
[by Lucy & Ellie]
Smartish Pace’s aesthetic, it feels to us, is narrative AND fragmentary, storyteller-ish and lyric. This week, write a poem that tells a story, but incorporate non-narrative elements into the poem–whether through form, sentence structure, voice, or anything else. We have some narratives possibilities to choose from–or supply your own:
Curtis Blow, the first superstar rapper, just turned 50.
“A Moroccan Oven That’s Open to All”
“Looking for a MAN with a very expensive sports car”
**The deadline for submitting your So to Speak prompted poems for the contest is 12am Monday August 3, 2009 (i.e., the stroke of midnight on Sunday night)
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