the black mage poems: <\/strong><\/p>\n

As a girl blerd (black nerd) who loves science, sci-fi and fantasy, I like writing that draws from these interests, such as my first in this series: “Hazards of Being, a Black Mage in the 23rd Century,”<\/a> which examines the stereotypes and tropes that tend to define these subjects in art, academia and pop culture. These poems and those mentioned below are focal points in my first full-length book of poetry, which is currently nearing completion.<\/p>\n

the ekphrastic series:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first of this series: \u201cIn Madrid with Picasso\u2019s Guernica,<\/em>\u201d I drafted in the winter of 2017 when I visited Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda<\/a> in Madrid and saw Picasso\u2019s Guernica<\/em><\/a>. Wanting to capture the moment I saw the painting, I decided to jot down my thoughts since the museum does not allow photography. As I revisited the painting throughout the day, I realized I could utilize my notes to draft an ekphrastic poem<\/a>. I did the same for the paintings that grasped my attention at the Kunsthalle<\/a> in Hamburg and The Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection<\/a> in Berlin which is how some of these others: \u201cIn Hamburg with The Negro Avenged<\/em>,\u201d \u201cOn Menzel\u2019s Atelierwand<\/em>,\u201d and \u201cGaspard the nightwalker<\/em>\u201d<\/a> came to be.<\/p>\n

the beau pr\u00e9sent series:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Based around my genealogy research, this project has grown from the lack of attentive records on the lives of people of color. I use the “beau pr\u00e9sent,”<\/a> a poetic form that grew out of the experimental poetics of the\u00a0OuLiPo<\/a> (Ouvroir de Litt\u00e9rature Potentielle) writers of the 1960s,\u00a0to invoke the names and memory of my ancestors, as this particular form requires every word in the poem to be derived from the letters of a person\u2019s name, which serves as the poem\u2019s title. Tapping into the power of names and naming in poems like:\u00a0“Madame Marguerite Jos\u00e9phine Jean-Louis Pierry (f.w.c.),”<\/a>\u00a0I take on my ancestors’ imagined voices and the psyche(s) of their communities as I attempt to conceive them into and as\u00a0present.\u00a0As Tom Dent<\/a> states, “History is not in the library; history was, is, and will be our lives.”<\/p>\n

the word bank poems:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Concerned with \u201cthe limits of words in the worlds that lie between us\u201d as I once described the phenomena of language acquisition, speech and writing, all the poems in this series are taken from the words of a single prose poem<\/a> of mine: \u201cI HAVE ONE SMALL GLASS AND A LIMITED REGISTER.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the black mage poems: As a girl blerd (black nerd) who loves science, sci-fi and fantasy, I like writing that draws from these interests, such as my first in this series: “Hazards of Being, a Black Mage in the 23rd Century,” which examines the stereotypes and tropes that tend to define these subjects in art, … Continue reading “Projects”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}