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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1004: What to Do With the Hedges
1003: Without Name
1002: Secular and Inconsolable
1001: To the bartender who tends to more than just the bar
1000: I Hear America Singing
999: clap-on
998: A Computerized Jet Fountain in the Detroit Metro Airport
997: Letter to the Editor
996: A Portable Paradise
995: Dear—,
994: ACT! pose with fingers as though cigarette (puff puff)
993: Bundt Cake from Sam's Club
992: Imago
991: Googling Ourselves
990: Feeding the Koi
989: Signs, Music
988: Hillwood
987: Totalitarian
986: EGGSHELLS
985: Might Kindred
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