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This challenge derives from a review in the NY Times of a collection of Golden Shovel poems based on the poems of Gwendolyn Brooks. Briefly the form developed by Terrance Hayes follows these rules.
In this song based challenge, apply a line, or lines from a song you identify with and give it the Golden Shovel treatment.
For example, "You don't wanna go to Charlottesville" is put together from the title and last two lines of the refrain of Bob Dylan's Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again
You don't wanna go to Charlottesville
after Bob Dylan
You don't wanna go to
Charlottesville if your skin be
black, for white folks there stuck
with a lost insurgence playing inside
their heads, a confederacy of
dunces, stretching from Mobile
Alabama north on I65 with
stops in Montgomery and Birmingham, the
South's heartland, then up I22 to Memphis
where we sadly sing the blues
black and blue all over again.
I'll accept entries until Sept. 22, the fall equinox, post them over the weekend in this thread. Entries should be sent to me as a private message and I'll post without attributing authorship. I'll open a separate thread for comments, discussion and author attribution. Authors will be revealed the weekend of Sept. 30.
- Take a line (or lines) from a poem you admire.
- Use each word in the line (or lines) as an end word in your poem.
- Keep the end words in order.
- Give credit to the poet who originally wrote the line (or lines).
- The new poem does not have to be about the same subject as the poem that offers the end words
In this song based challenge, apply a line, or lines from a song you identify with and give it the Golden Shovel treatment.
For example, "You don't wanna go to Charlottesville" is put together from the title and last two lines of the refrain of Bob Dylan's Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again
You don't wanna go to Charlottesville
after Bob Dylan
You don't wanna go to
Charlottesville if your skin be
black, for white folks there stuck
with a lost insurgence playing inside
their heads, a confederacy of
dunces, stretching from Mobile
Alabama north on I65 with
stops in Montgomery and Birmingham, the
South's heartland, then up I22 to Memphis
where we sadly sing the blues
black and blue all over again.
I'll accept entries until Sept. 22, the fall equinox, post them over the weekend in this thread. Entries should be sent to me as a private message and I'll post without attributing authorship. I'll open a separate thread for comments, discussion and author attribution. Authors will be revealed the weekend of Sept. 30.
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