SNS | 03-25-23
Featuring: Nicole Callihan & Unmesh Mohitkar
Theme: Rupture
Hosted By: Hollie Hardy
Saturday March 25, 2023
6:00pm Pacific Time
(8:00pm Central time)
Online Event
Free Admission
March Writing Prompt:
I recently bought Jenny Xie’s book, The Rupture Tense, to teach in my Contemporary Poets & Poetry workshop and before I even read this amazing collection, I fell for the word “rupture.” Its versatility and violence; its brutal, catalytic change.
To break. To shatter warningless. A glass table exploding in slow motion. To breach. To disturb. To disrupt. An alien bursting from a stomach like a surprise from a cake. Harmony collision. An unwanted memory. Engorged river. Protestors infenestrating buildings through ruptured glass. Bombed cities. Broken silence.
For your prompt this month, think burst pipes and flooded banks; think derailed trains and ruptured relationships; think explosions and popped balloons or tendons, organs spilling and borders breached. Even thunder, laughter, or a sneeze can rupture. Think egg shells and ruined yolks. Fissure. Puncture. Erupt. And then, perhaps...repair. Think wabi-sabi and kintsugi. Think make-up sex.
Or play with form. How can you rupture the narrative? The sentence? The line? The page? Language and tense! Disrupt the normative syntax! Word mutiny! Dismember and rebuild! Consider how breaking something can provide a new way to revise, a new way to create.
Feel free to interpret the prompt any way you choose or to ignore it entirely. Sign up below to share your poems, stories, songs, dances, or short comedy sketches at this month's open mic.
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Author Bio
Nicole Callihan’s This Strange Garment was released this month by Terrapin Books. Her other books include SuperLoop and the poetry chapbooks The Deeply Flawed Human, Downtown, and ELSEWHERE (with Zoë Ryder White), as well as a novella, The Couples. Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Conduit, The American Poetry Review, and as a Poem-a-Day selection from the Academy of American Poets. Find out more at www.nicolecallihan.com.
Get your copy of This Strange Garment here: https://www.terrapinbooks.com/store/p55/garment.html
Unmesh Mohitkar is a performance poet and spoken word artist from Pune, India. He is the author of the poetry collections, Light Shadow Life: The Missing Verse of the Soul and most recently Let’s Un-Mesh Life. He has featured at multiple international open mics and spoken word events, including the Singapore and San Jose Poetry Festival, Phynncabulary, Put it in the Chat, Word is Write, Time to Arrive, Cobalt poets and The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Online. Unmesh writes in three languages (English, Hindi, Marathi) and is a globetrotter who has visited twenty-two countries. He hosts his own open mic Let’s UN-Mesh Life every Saturday at 9pm IST, 10:30am EST.
Learn more: https://linktr.ee/UnmeshMohitkar
His latest book, Let’s Un-Mesh Life is available now: https://a.co/d/9vE0Glm