Poetry + Photo Project

Your first actual assignment will be to write a poem and marry it with a related series of images that intensify the meaning of the poem.

To start, write for 15 minutes:

0. List:
• A favorite memory
• A story you like to tell people
• An event in your life when you were very sad.
• An event in your life when you were overjoyed.
• An event in your life when you were terrified.
• A time you had a conflict with someone you cared about.
• Something in your life you are proud of.
• An important journey or trip you took.
  An experience where you did something new for the first time.
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   Read: 
   
   
   My Father Writes a Poem for my Mother
   By Anita Skeen
   
   When you write about your mother passing,
   he says to me from beside her bed where he has spent the night, and I know you will, be sure to say
   last night it rained, that the rain she asked about each day played for her on the moonsoaked river and that, in the early hours, the birds
   lit up the sky with song and the bush out front, the bleeding heart, which all winter sagged
   so sick and scraggly, opened out this morning, the green leaves licked by tongues of rain,
   the little hearts lined up like get-well cards
   on her dresser scarf, and that out back,
   there on the east side of the house,
   where the bud has been so small
   and tight, the amaryllis burst this morning into bloom, and that it’s raining
   still, it’s raining still.