Golden shovel

title: “Golden Shovel”

layout: note

date: 18-08-2023

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last_modified_at: 2023-12-08 12:09

tags: [Poeticform]

end of each line is a quote or line.

In Hayes’ The Golden Shovel, the end of each line quotes Gwendolyn Brooks’ We Real Cool in full.

It’s a fun form to play around in and a challenge as you have to bend your own lines into the existing words. It’s a way to Transform Existing Work and create something new that comments on the original.