National Poetry Month: April 4, 2020 — Saturday is for Sleeping
Saturday 7am loud beeping concrete trucks require more distance.
April is National Poetry Month. It’s also life during the time of the corona virus. So I’m going to post an American sentence or two every day along with an image that attempts to document what it is like.
Allen Ginsberg came up with the concept, and he says that an American sentence is like a haiku in that it has 17 syllables but it’s not three lines in a stanza but one. As a haiku seeks to conveys an image that generates emotion and conveys a moment in time, the best Sentences do more than just offer a sentence in 17 syllables.
I learned about American Sentences from Paul E. Nelson who I met at the Taos Poetry Circus in 2000.
According to Paul, the key to writing a good American Sentence comes from Ginsberg’s notion that poets are people who notice what they notice.
He has been writing one a day since January 1, 2001. Learn more about American Sentences and how to write good ones from Paul here.
I took the photo of the rodent on a hike at Arroyo Verde Park in March 2020 before they closed it down because of the Corona virus. On April 4, from 7am-8pm, they were working on the construction site next door pouring concrete then cutting it; the previous day they were LOUD as they compacted gravel from 7am-5pm. Learn more about this wretched construction project “Brisa 29” here.
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