The prompt was to write a New York School poem - or in that style. I tried. Got a start; didn't get very far and it is a complete first draft. This is a form I want to look into a little more - and will. But for now I'm off to bed (a little too late) - so this is what I have for NaPoWriMo #21.
It is a “recipe” or constraint of sorts for writing a New York School poem (my class read James Schuyler, Bernadette Mayer, Charles Bernstein, and Dorothea Lasky—a heterodox selection, I realize; and listened to Eileen Myles, Schuyler, Robert Creeley, and Ron Padgett via PennSound).Students were encouraged to use as many of the following "ingredients" as possible:
-at least one addressee (to which you may or may not wish to dedicate your poem)
-use of specific place names and dates (time, day, month, year)--especially the names of --places in and around New York City
-prolific use of proper names
-at least one reminiscence, aside, digression, or anecdote
-one or more quotations, especially from things people have said in conversation or through the media
-a moment where you call into question at least one thing you have said or proposed throughout your poem so far
-something that sounds amazing even if it doesn’t make any sense to you
-pop cultural references
-consumer goods/services
-mention of natural phenomena (in which natural phenomena do not appear ‘natural’)
-slang/colloquialism/vernacular/the word "fuck"
-at least one celebrity
-at least one question directed at the addressee/imagined reader
-reference to sex or use of sexual innuendo
-the words “life” and “death”
-at least one exclamation/declaration of love
-references to fine art, theater, music, or film
-mention of genitals and body parts
-food items
-drug references (legal or illegal)
-gossip
-mention of sleep or dreaming
-use of ironic overtones
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Lindt 90% Dark Chocolate Dreams
by Dot
This prompt is easy for me because
it's a style I tend to use even though I haven't heard of it before.
Though I suppose if I had my MFA I would have heard of it.
But I didn't so I don't -
know I mean?
So who would this famous person be who would know these things?
Would you know?
Are you a celebrity? I'm sure you are - in some way,
in some circle.
We all are, aren't we?
Oh how I do love learning new things.
New styles of writing poetry though
I don't always like them.
They may sit hard in my stomach or churn
my chest to aches of wrenching out forced words or
maybe I'll just have fun.
Like now.
LIke writing about -
Aw, fuckit. It's time for bed!
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