Erase-Transform
My collage/poem “The Alternate Inaugural Address 2017” is up at the ERASE-TRANSFORM Poetry Project: “Beginning with the inauguration speech, we seek submissions that take that rhetoric and draw out life-affirming poetry.”
I printed out Trump’s inaugural speech and cut up all the words and put them in an envelope, selecting nine words to use for my poem.
The rest of the words I glued randomly in an overlapping spiral around a photo of the stars.
In the center I collaged the speech I wish had been given that day.
You can read more about the project and submit your own transformed speeches here. And do read some of the other wonderful spirit-lifting poetic speeches that have been submitted.
My thanks to editor Kelly Lenox for printing my poem/collage. And thanks to Trish Hopkinson for her post about the project (and all the wonderful information she gathers for writers on her blog).
Wow–I love this idea, your poem, your hopes, and your collage.
Yes, to hope, dreams, and love.
(And to tearing up the bombast.) 😉
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Thanks Merril. There was some satisfaction involoved in cutting up all those words…
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Hahaha. I’m sure. But you have such discipline to then use them the way you did instead of grinding them up, or flushing, or. . . 😉
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Well I could always print it out again…
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Hahaha.
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Really lovely work!
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Thank you!
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Your collage/words speak for me as well. Thank you for posting Kerfe.
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Thanks Sharon. We will.
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Well done Kerfe ❤
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Thanks Susan.
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You’ve erased with a great transformation.
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Thanks Ken! Many words were easily discarded…
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Very nice K! xx
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Thanks Lynn!
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So awesome!!! Love this idea! That took some time!!!!
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It did. But it’s meditative, like stitching.
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Hope, dream and love – sounds like words we could all hear each day! Amazing how this turned out!! 😃 Well-done Kerfe!
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Thanks Jill! We can always find some optimism if we look hard enough…
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Brilliant! Congratulations, Kerfe.
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Thanks Jack.
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;>)
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