William Friedkin wrote and directed "Cruising," starring Al Pacino as a cop who goes undercover to catch a killer preying on queer men. The killer seems to jump bodies (he is played by different actors throughout the film). The film ends with Pacino staring into the camera while his girlfriend tries on the leather jacket, cap, and aviator sunglasses we see the killer wear throughout the film.
James Allen Hall on "Erotic Crime Thriller" |
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"A Conversation with Leila Chatti"
"The poem(s) originally came about this way, fragmented and disparate, like something glimpsed out of the corner of the eye. Silence is as much a part of this as the words are, if not more so. Language and ideas came in wisps, and I tried to capture this accurately—words would appear, suddenly, and then vanish, sometimes mid-thought. This is the experience of miscarriage—out of nothing, back into. Writing this felt like collecting rain in my hands."
via THE RUMPUS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Melissa Kwasny on "Sleeping with the Cedars"
"Most of us are frightened of the future and grief stricken at what humans have done to the earth. As I see it, one of the unique tasks of poets, especially at this time, is to be in imaginative relation with the Earth. And to use language as a tool toward that effort. To have an imaginative—as opposed to an abstract or intellectual—relationship with the earth is to be in attendance to what Denise Levertov called 'other forms of life that want to live.'" |
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Write with Poetry Daily This April, to celebrate National Poetry Month, we'll share popular writing prompts from our "What Sparks Poetry" essay series each morning. Write along with us!
Write a poem in which the speaker interacts with someone or something (real or imagined, living or ideal) who communicates back, if at all, in a language outside of everyday speech. The speaker tries to read the signs of the other, tries to understand the world more, or what underlies the world, via the interaction. Peter Streckfus |
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