Writing Challenges: November

This month’s writing challenges to myself:

• Not NaNoWriMo.

Theme:

• a happy poem.
• race
• gender
• darkness, without cliché.

Structure:

• villanelle
• title first, poem second
• mimic other poets
• don’t use “you” or “I”

Rewrite/Rework:

• “Seeds” (November 2006)
• “Motel” (November 2006)
• “Inheritance” (September 2007)
• “Paul Banks” (October 2007)
• “Liam Ross” (November 2007)

Tags: november 2007