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I’ve found my way back into a regular poetry writing routine and simultaneously I might have found my NPM project. As I read the NYT or other assorted news sources, I borrow bits and pieces and write a tricube.
I’ve also been playing with haiku-comics.
There’s room during NPM for both, right?
Tanita has this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup at {fiction, instead of lies}
A(nother) Year of Reading 
Yes!!! Room for everything! Thank you for your searing and timely poem about Cesar Chavez. “women pay” indeed. Very sad and so true.
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Thanks for this, Mary Lee.
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Sad and tragic, your tricube. I love your idea to be inspired by current events. I would love to see what you come up with.
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Current events are a real inspiration these days to put our words together. I like the tricube form as it is like the haiku to me, condensed and to the point. Well done.
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Yes! Room for both. I’m also doing tricubes for Poetry Month! Yay! Also, I love (but also am saddened) but the title of your poem. Love because it rings true.
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Yes! Room for both. I’m also doing tricubes for Poetry Month! Yay! Also, I love (but also am saddened) but the title of your poem. Love because it rings true.
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Oops! sorry for a duplicate. Feel free to delete. I thought the first one didn’t go through.
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Indeed, we have trusted, and now, a piece of news we wish were untrue, but sadly, it makes us less trusting, doesn’t it? Thanks for making it real, and for that final, so true, line, Mary Lee. Yes, you can do both ideas. Are there rules for Poetry Month? No! Happy Spring!
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Hurrah for another tricube — and what a good use for it, working through the news headlines. I have watercolor paper for my comics but I’m just… thinking they won’t all be even quick paintings if these headlines are what we have to work with. Bleh. I would say I’m so disappointed, but somehow disappointment evinces a bit of surprise. I’m resigned, I think. Bitterest irony – fighting for visibility and equality …except visibility or equality for women, who are somehow less than people, just bits of tissue to be used and thrown away. Monstrous indeed.
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So glad you’ve found your way back to poetry! Lucky us! xo
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I think that if our “heroes” know that they will be held accountable, no matter how much we like what they do, then maybe they will stop abusing their power.
Good luck with your NPM project!
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There’s always room for your imaginative projects, Mary Lee! And I’m always interested in your take on current events. Looking forward to more news through your poetic prism!
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This was gutting news but yes, it’s so important that crimes like those Chavez committed come to light. I feel such anguish for Dolores Huerta for carrying this for so many years, and also grateful to her for speaking out. May she inspire — may every woman who speaks out inspire — other women who have been violated and silenced.
Your tricube says it all.
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Yes, room for both. Your tricube about Cesar Chavez is on fire. Sadly, we are not surprised when we hear such news.
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The coming out is the painful and difficult part for women, and they become our hero’s. Thanks for spreading more light on this horrific crime!
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Sometimes our writing of poetry is at its pithiness when we step into the political sphere. This is poilitical poem inspried by an image making it an ekphrastic poem at its core. Poetry as revelation and truth, Mary Lee, always a great motivation.
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I dwell in an angry space this week, reading of the ugliness of powerful men. I wonder if there’s such a thing as angry comics?
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Mary Lee, the last stanza of your poem says it all. Behind the iconic hero image, a man with a powerful ego was found. It makes me wonder why many leaders hide their dark sides.
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