Paper Poetry’s December 2024 prompt
The Minutiae of Poetry
Harvesting life’s small details
The beauty of life is in small details,
not in big events.
Jim Jarmusch
Greetings to our Paper Poetry friends and thank you for being here.
In this season of thanksgiving and celebration, we have much to be grateful for and, as Jim Jarmusch reminds us, it’s life’s small details that often give us the greatest joy.
Poets know well how to delve into the big events and extract, expand, extrapolate the beauty that exists in the small details. Like a painter’s brushstrokes, we choose our words with an eye, an ear, an aesthetic that deftly creates an image in the reader’s mind and speaks into their humanity.
It was there in the astonishing array of poetry we received in response to our November prompt: patterns. Astonishing in the breadth and depth of content; astonishing in the volume of submissions. Suntonu and I are grateful to each and every one who joined us for the prompt and helped make it one of the most successful we’ve run at Paper Poetry. Our gratitude also to everyone who supported our poets by reading, clapping, highlighting and commenting. 🙏 ✨ 💞
