RU NaPoWriMo: Brought to you by Letters & I

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Brought to you by Letters & I

I have torn my hair for three long days

I took endless pains to show how a god (ie to begin with a daimon) arose from concrete fact

I thought men were all so great & strong & knew about Procedure by instinct

I went to a splendid aeroplane cinema

I found myself getting hotter & hotter & gasping with excitement & sympathy

I have been most grounded

I wrote a really beautiful paragraph

I should like to write a play for a cinema

I am rather proud of being able to write a guid gentlemanly review

I am just flying up to London to hear Ridgeway on the Mother-of-God

I understand now what hurt me a little when you said it why you won’t be a democrat

I understand heaps of things

2 comments:

caolanApril 15, 2014 at 10:52 PM
Oh Mimz you are doing some pretty exciting research out there! I am JEALOUS. You DO understand heaps of things! I want to understand more of them.
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MimzApril 16, 2014 at 6:03 PM
"Jane Harrison explains it all" should have been what I called this. I am spending way too much time transcribing all the delightful bits of her letters and not ruthlessly researching but I won't stop!
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WHAT WE DO

Since 2010, Rutgers English PhD students and friends have been writing a poem a day for the month of April as part of NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month).

From the NaPoWriMo official site:

NaPoWriMo was founded in 2003, when poet Maureen Thorson decided to take up the challenge (modeled after NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), and challenged other poets to join her. Since then, the number of participants has gotten larger every year, and many writers’ organizations, local, national and even international, organize NaPoWriMo activities.