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Monday, March 03, 2008

Monday Poetry Stretch - Mask Poems

Last week we wrote poems to people or things, so this week I thought it would be fun to write as someone or something else. Mask (or persona) are poems in which the subject is the speaker.

Kristine O'Connell George has written a wonderful book entitled Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems, in which her poems take on many different voices, including an oak tree, a willow, a tree with a secret, and many others. She even has a page of writing prompts to accompany the book.

Here's your chance to be someone or something else. What or who will you be? Leave me a comment about your poem and I'll share them later this week.
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9 comments:

  1. Tiel Aisha Ansari3/03/2008 7:38 PM

    Here's one I wrote a while back:

    Avian Graffiti

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  2. Elaine Magliaro3/03/2008 8:33 PM

    Tricia,

    I love mask/persona poems!
    You can read some of the mask poems I have posted at Wild Rose Reader to date.

    http://wildrosereader.blogspot.com/search/label/mask%20poems

    Here are some books that contain only mask poems that I highly recommend:

    IN PRINT
    - "Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices" selected by Paul B. Janeczko
    - "Desert Voices" by Byrd Baylor

    OUT OF PRINT
    - "Any Me I Want to Be" by Karla Kuskin
    - "Turtle in July" by Marilyn Singer

    Several fine mask poems can also be found in the following two books by Douglas Florian:
    - "Insectlopedia"
    - "In the Swim"

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  3. Anonymous3/03/2008 10:05 PM

    I wrote one from the perspective of someone with very incorrect grammar and horrible writing.

    It's rather hilarious.

    Hey baby

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  4. Anonymous3/03/2008 11:54 PM

    This one snuck up on me:

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/03/sitting-pretty.html

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  5. MHN3/04/2008 10:01 AM

    I love doing mask poems. Thanks. Mine, titled Another Home, can be seen at http://poet4kids.blogspot.com/2008/03/this-weeks-poetry-stretch.html

    Marianne

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  6. Anonymous3/04/2008 10:10 AM

    I started a poetry website if you want to check it out. The link is off of my blog. Peace

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  7. Elaine Magliaro3/04/2008 3:23 PM

    Tricia,

    I published all my mask poems again in one post.

    http://wildrosereader.blogspot.com/2008/03/mask-poems-reprise.html

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  8. Anonymous3/04/2008 11:30 PM

    I'm an ornery judge in this post.

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  9. paisley3/06/2008 6:54 AM

    this is actually an excerpt from a novelette... but it fits the prompt well....

    excerpt: silence

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