This morning, I participated in "Outside the System: Using Blackout Poetry to Explore the Relationship Between Motherhood, Money, and Capitalism," a writing workshop facilitated by Christina Vega of Blue Cactus Press and hosted by Creative Colloquy.
I ended up creating a poem ("The Bounty") using two sources—a paragraph from "Doubloon," chapter 99 of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville and language and lines from a section of the recent Texas "abortion bounty" bill.
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The workshop was intense. It also allowed me permission to think differently about erasure/blackout poems and how to create them.
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"The Bounty" is related to my recent postcard poem series, "O Eschaton."
It is also related to my poem "Funeral," published by Creative Colloquy.
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