creativity | Michele Seminara

Pièce de Shakespeare

I have had a new poem, Pièce de Shakespeare, published in Bluepepper. This is a found poem written to celebrate Bloomsday, which falls on the 16th of June. On this day every year literary nerds such as myself pay homage to James Joyce’s ground-breaking novel, Ulysses. I initially wrote this poem in response to a call out from The Found Poetry …

Manifesto To Myself

So, the dust must lie and the dishes sit, now is the time to write. I clear the house of children and husband and draw myself back to this – a pen, some paper and an internally inquiring mind (for that is how I still write, with much crossing out and scrawling and room for mental movement in all directions). Your money …