Anaphora (Guest Prompt by Adriana)

This week we have a guest prompt offered up by Adriana Rambay Fernandez:

Play with patterns and repetition by structuring your poem as anaphora. Draw out the emotion and imagery in a piece by repeating the first words in each line of the poem as Joe Brainard does in his book-length poem, I Remember or begin and end with the same line as Angelina Weld Grimké does in, El Beso. As an added extra or alternative, using Grimké’s example, repeat the same word twice in one line at various intervals within the poem. Consider other ways to begin such as repeating; Im sorry, I lost, or in the mornings we

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