This NPM, I am writing acrostic poems using words from the Banned Words List at the Pen America Website. You can find my poems each day on Poetrepository, IG stories, and BlueSky.
April 1 Diversity
April 2 Climate Crisis
April 3 Transgender
April 4 Biases
April 5 Activism
April 6 Community
April 7 Pronouns
April 8 Gay
April 9 Hate
April 10 Elderly
Irene has this week’s Poetry Friday roundup at Live Your Poem.
A(nother) Year of Reading 
Mary Lee, I loved your “gloriously complicated self.” Beautiful! xo
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Such an important theme in this series–thank you for drawing attention to it! “I am who l am” speaks for everyone whose identity is under attack. The last line is especially powerful.
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I love this project. You raise up the acrostic form. What a gloriously complicated person we all are. For me I find it hard to accept this for myself. I always worry that I am putting on a fake face. I love the confidence in your poem. I’m going to carry this with me today.
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This is such a meaningful, powerful poem and project. I love “never redact.” “Redact” is quite a potent word–onomatopoetic to me.
I’m glad to be reminded of your project and am going back to read last week’s poems now.
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Google prevents me commenting on your other site, but I’ve been enjoying your acrostics, especially yesterday’s. It still makes me wince-laugh and shake my head that both “community” AND “elderly” are determined to be problematic, ‘woke’ words. Um… sure. Sure. Words – THAT’S the problem…
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…I think this whole acrostic today could go on a poster or a sweatshirt.
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Ooooooh… this resonates. THANK YOU for your beautiful, inspiring project of resistance!
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Mary Lee
What a great theme for poem (alas, right?)
Kevin
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This is powerful, Mary Lee! I love that last line especially! xo
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An unequivoval, emphatic statement is rendered in your poem. Mary Lee. No trifling allowed. You have made excellent use of the acrostic form here.
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Very powerful Mary Lee, “Identity” that’s an especially timely word, I’ll have to checkout the list, thanks for your action and statements of resistance!
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Oh, this is powerful! You are rocking the acrostic form, Mary Lee!
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Oh, this is powerful! You are rocking the acrostic form, Mary Lee!
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Oh, this is powerful! You are rocking the acrostic form, Mary Lee!
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Oh, this is powerful! You are rocking the acrostic form, Mary Lee!
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Oh, this is powerful! You are rocking the acrostic form, Mary Lee!
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This is powerful. You are rocking the acrostic form, Mary Lee!
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This is powerful. You are rocking the acrostic form, Mary Lee!
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Add my list to the voices emphasizing the power of this poem, Mary Lee. I love it!
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