Tag: Poetry

Bob Flanagan, Living His Pain as a Work of Art

Bob Flanagan was born in 1952 with cystic fibrosis. At the time, children with this disease generally did not survive past adolescence. Flanagan lived to be 43. It was not a medical miracle… it was, according to him, a decision.…

Constraint of the Week: The Day in Verse

The Day in Verse, Constraint #66 For an entire day, answer every question in iambic pentameter… ten syllables. No exception. At the supermarket checkout too. Reference artist(s): Georges Perec. The protocol Brush up on iambic pentameter the night before: ten…