“Pin back your ears”; pull off your lips - this poster by the futurist artist and poet Majakovsky pushes our image of the smile into a different place - ready to take off, in fact, with the corners of the mouth lifting like little wings.
This week’s prompt is based on the idea of being mouthless, silenced, like the narrator in Daljit Nagra’s poem, X, which you can watch him read on the Poetry Channel.
Be as surrealist, as imagist or as realist as you like, and write about what it would be like to lose your mouth, your voice, your power of speech.
“Pin back your ears”; pull off your lips - this poster by the futurist artist and poet Majakovsky pushes our image of the smile into a different place - ready to take off, in fact, with the corners of the mouth lifting like little wings.
This week’s prompt is based on the idea of being mouthless, silenced, like the narrator in Daljit Nagra’s poem, X, which you can watch him read on the Poetry Channel.
Be as surrealist, as imagist or as realist as you like, and write about what it would be like to lose your mouth, your voice, your power of speech.
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