Poets Playing: Exquisite Corpse

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Join us later for #writetoday for a  fun writing prompt. Psssttt…Wordle and Google Translate might be involved.

From top to bottom the images/texts are by:

Rachelle Cruz lives in Southern Cali. Her text/image was completed with the help of her CRWT 150 students, Melanie and Jonathan.

Desiree Bailey lives in Providence, RI and is an MFA Fiction candidate at Brown University. She has received fellowships from Princeton in Africa, The Norman Mailer Center and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. She is the current Fiction editor for Kin Folks.

Eduardo Corral first book Slow Lightning was published by Yale University Press in 2012 as the winner of the Yale Younger Series Poets Prize. Corral was born in Casa Grande, Arizona to Higinio and Socorro Corral. He currently lives in Rego Park, Queens, New York. 

Lisa Lee is a writer living in Los Angeles.

Rona Luo is a writer and healer living in Oakland, California.

Rajiv Mohabir studies writing in Honolulu and loves poems by Kundies, Kabir, and humpback whales. Check out some of his work here: http://rajivmohabir.wordpress.com/writing/

Rachel Ronquillo Gray was born and raised in Nevada; she now lives in the Midwest and is trying to live without mountains. 

Poet and visual artist Maya Pindyck is the author of the collection Friend Among Stones (New Rivers Press) and the chapbook Locket, Master (Poetry Society of America).

Matthew Olzmann is the author of Mezzanines (Alice James Books), selected for the 2011 Kundiman Prize. His poems have appeared in New England Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast,The Southern Review and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships and scholarships from the Kresge Arts Foundation, The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Currently, he teaches at Warren Wilson College and is the poetry editor of The Collagist.

Tomorrow is April and Tomorrow Starts National Poetry Month

Tomorrow Kundiman’s Fireside blog kicks off National Poetry Month with 9 poets playing every writer’s favorite parlor game—The Exquisite Corpse. Join us each day in April for a poetry prompt, a poet, and of course, a poem.

Until then, a textual montage of poetry in our everyday. 

Beyonce wrote a poem for Frank Ocean once.

“Some say science is cold, dealing unemotionally with hard data. But that’s far from the reality. Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.”

“It’s like poetry in motion. It’s almost unfair to everyone else,” said wrestler Clay Drasher.

Our current President? Wrote poems. ::mic drop::

"The first time this happens and players see the ash skull form from their defeated metal carcass is like poetry.”

“I used to tell my senior staff to get me poets as managers,” says Sidney Harman, founder of Harman Industries, a $3 billion producer of sound systems for luxury cars, theaters and airports. 

What’s poetic: justice, female desire, salmon fishing flies, Lupita Nyong’o, cricket, tiny homes and the wild.

Special thank you to Kundiman Fellow, Jake Ricafrante, for his help with this post.

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore