The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
Arts:Performing Arts
Today’s poem is Self-Portrait with Tumbling and Lasso by Eduardo C. Corral.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… "These days, we are loving reading and writing self-portrait poems, what I call the “verbal selfie.” It allows the author to be the runway, to elevate themselves into the frame of language. In so doing, the poet, like the author of today’s poem, experiments with perceptions of the self. I like how the poet in Rembrandt-fashion mythologizes himself in the lyric.”
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1018: Cuffing Season
1017: Parallel Worlds
1016: In the Seam of Life
1015: Death Letter #2
1014: Date
1013: Reading Poetry in Illness
1012: Morning Glory
1011: Bloodroot
1010: Self-care Bucket List
1009: Teleology
1008: Kinds of Silence
1007: To Do: Write Cephalopod Poem
1006: Something Sweet
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