National Poetry Month: April 11, 2020 — Covid Dreams
This covid couple sports handmade masks — they may not be proper but they serve the purpose! Felted handcrafted art and photograph by Borbala Arvai.
These days so bizarre it’s hard to separate dreams from reality.
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. The covid couple above is by Borbala Arvai; more of her work below.
Allen Ginsberg came up with the American Sentence concept; 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 line. 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.
Borbala also makes tiny bunnies
by Borbala Arvai
and refillable eggs…
refillable eggs by Borbala Arvai
Happy Easter from my family to yours!
From happier days: Easter at Mammoth Mountain’s McCoy Ski Lodge. Under my felt bunny hat is a handmade felt top hat made by Barbara Hynes. Her work can be purchased here.
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