National Poetry Month: April 6, 2020– Covid Be Gone
If we’d posted a Facebook “stay at home challenge,” Covid’d be over.
If we stood our brooms up again, it’ll close the portal; Covid’d be gone.
April is National Poetry Month so I’m going to post an American sentence or two every day along with a image. Above is my window with flowers from my yard.
Allen Ginsberg came up with the concept — an American sentence is like a haiku in that it has 17 syllables but it’s not three lines in a stanza but one line, a sentence. As haiku seeks to offer an image that generates emotion and conveys a moment in time, the best Sentences do more than just be 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.
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