Random Word Poetry

"It's the sort of website that makes you want to go and write a Sestina, and that can't be bad."

-The Oracular Journal

A few semesters ago, during a poetry workshop with David, he assigned a nifty exercise. He gave us a list of words he'd pulled out of some poems. Then he said we had to use X number of them in the next thing we wrote for class. Now, Camii and I do the same thing in our letters to each other. For a while, we've forgotten to, but this last time I said, "Holy smokes! We need random word poetry!"

Here's an example, from part of my last letter to Camii, of what that looks like. In her response, she'll create some poetry from my list and send another list or two for me to use.