The Sacred as Volta
with prompts inspired by Jared Harel, Hayana Charara & Armen Davoudian
We’re back!
Thank you for staying with me as I took a much needed break for a couple of weeks. I’m grateful for your support!
This past weekend at AWP in Baltimore felt like a treasure trove for They Say Poetry is Dead! So many new poems, new ideas & inspiration gleaned from poets I met for the first time as well as poets that I have been reading for many years. I’m excited to share them with you in the coming weeks & months, starting today.
Below is a line I scribbled down while listening to Hayan Charara read on a panel about writing “the sacred.”
This resonated with me for many reasons & on many levels. Raised in an evangelical Baptist church, I was taught very early that “paradise” is not something that one defines for oneself. It is a specific place—heaven—& you only get to see it if you accept Jesus Christ as your lord & savior. And even then, not until you’re dead.
But what if we get to define & redefine paradise? What if paradise is an idea? What if we get to define what is sacred? This week’s prompts will reckon with these questions.
~My workshops for March-July are all posted & open for registration!
Okay! Read to write?!
