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The Golden Shovel - NATE

Spoken word poetry veteran Peter Kahn introduces a new anthology which pays homage to US poet Gwendolyn. Brooks through the 'Golden Shovel', a new poetic form.

Golden Shovel Poem – Bridge the Distance - OPEN OKSTATE

Golden Shovel Poem ... I'm able to enter unnoticed. Nobody will know I was here. Who needs all the air in the room. Are not peace and quiet enough? ... Are at peace ...

The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn ...

The last words of each line in a Golden Shovel poem are, in order, words from a line or lines taken from a Brooks poem. The poems are, in a way, secretly ...

The Golden Shovel by Terrance Hayes - Unicorns Are Forever

This poem takes from that in a poetic form Hayes named the “Golden Shovel.” The idea is to take a line or lines from a another poem, give credit to the poet.

Just got word my poem, “Double Golden Shovel Sonnet Found on ...

My poem, “Double Golden Shovel Sonnet Found on the Q Train,” was selected by January Gill O'Neil as the winner of the 2024 Yeats International Poetry Prize.

Golden Shovel | Reflections on the Teche

Today you can choose to find a quote you like to write about in a golden shovel or write your own ekphrastic poem about the photo. Please post your poems in the ...

The Golden Shovel Poem by Terrance Hayes

When I am so small Da's sock covers my arm, we cruise at twilight until we find the place the real men lean, bloodshot and translucent with cool.

Golden Shovels - by Becca Rose Hall - A Few Crooked Words

Golden Shovels are a new form of poetry, invented by Terrance Hayes. The title is a reference to the poolhall in Gwendolyn Brooks' poem “We Real ...

Golden Shovel - Juliet Iwelunmor's Blog

I am taking this poetry thing a bit further. I came across the golden shovel way of poetry writing. It's where you take a short poem in its ...

Free Workshop on Golden Shovel Poems! - Katie Ailes

Free Workshop on Golden Shovel Poems! January 6, 2021. ◦. Performance Poetry, poetry, Teaching, Writing. Hello all! As I mentioned in my last post, ...

Digging for awe: Golden shovel poems | lit bits and pieces

Try digging with the Golden Shovel yourself. Take a line from a poem or a favorite book, speech, or song that has special appeal to you and transform it into ...

Poetry Readings from "The Golden Shovel Anthology"

The last words of each line in a Golden Shovel poem are, in order, words from a line or lines taken from a Brooks poem. The poems are, in a way, secretly ...

Poetry Exercise 2: A Variation on The Golden Shovel

“The Golden Shovel” is a tour de force, so practitioners of this new form have both Brooks and Hayes to live up to. In Brooks's poem, you'll ...

Golden Shovel Full of Darkness, Southern Flowers, and Moondust

Rebecca Hart Olander holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poetry has appeared recently in Crab Creek Review, Radar Poetry, and ...

The Golden Shovel Summary - eNotes.com

The poem is divided into two parts, each containing twelve couplets. Part 1 is dated 1981, and part 2, 1991. Part I takes place when the speaker was a child, so ...

The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn ...

A new book honors her work in using a form called the golden shovel, developed by poet Terrance Hayes. In The Golden Shovel Anthology, poets select a line from ...

My Daddy's Golden Shovel - AliceNine.net

It's a poem. Last month during Laura Shovan's poetry challenge, I read a number of shovel poems. I did some searching and learned that the “Golden Shovel” is ...

The Golden Shovel by Terrance Hayes - Poem Analysis

'The Golden Shovel' by Terrance Hayes is a poignant and evocative poem that explores the complex dynamics of masculinity, violence, family, and the passage of ...

Can you dig it? - YeahWrite's September Poetry Slam

To write a Golden Shovel (I'm capitalizing to make it stand out from the text, but you don't have to; it's not a proper noun unless it's the ...

golden shovel Archives - Laura Purdie Salas

Tag: golden shovel · Leaving Things Behind — a Golden Shovel Poem [Poetry Friday] · Writing a Golden Shovel Poem: Day 5 · Writing a Golden Shovel Poem: Day 4.