Fulfilling my obligations to my long-neglected TBR one book a time. Want to know why? I explain it in the first post here. Posting striking lines daily on BlueSky

Writing prompts! Picking issues out of the pile at random has landed me this month in the middle of a series of writing prompts by featured poets. In this issue Kimiko Hahn writes the fourth in a series of writing prompts which feature not only a short essay about the history and specs of the glosa, but also examples from her own work and built out templates. So kind! And useful! And let’s all go write some glosas!

If you follow me over on over on BlueSky you already know I post lines I find striking every day as I slowly read through one book or issue each week. From this particular issue, I would like to draw your attention to these lines from one of the glosa examples Kimiko includes in her prompt:

What a day that was! Uncle stomping in
with rifle and bloody bird.
The loon’s eyes, too, were closed
like the roads deep in snow.

I love this form and how it opens up a way to weave in some of your favourite lines from other poets into a new quilt of your own. The possibilities are endless. This issue is also a great excuse to go back and spend some time with P.K. Page and one of the best poems written by a Canadian, “Planet Earth.”