Happy National Poetry Month! Here's Assignment #4...
April is National Poetry Month! Throughout the month, we're hosting a series of conversations and on-air classes with local poets Sharon Olds, Gregory Pardlo, Vijay Seshadri, and more.
Here's your assignment this week, from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith:
Write a poem of 10-12 lines that consists of only one sentence, and that also includes the following:
- a reference to something that exists in the speaker's present, and which you examine by way of a simile or metaphor
- a memory of something from the speaker's past considered by way of a different simile or metaphor
Need an example? Read Tracy K. Smith's poem, "The Good Life."
There's no real deadline for this, but if you submit by early morning on Thursday, April 28th, there's a chance Smith will read your poem on the air! Drop yours in the comment section below.
(In case you're curious, here are Assignment #1, Assignment #2, and Assignment #3 from earlier this month.)
Listen below to Tracy's interview, where she reads a few listener submissions:
