#78 Texas Speaks

ASSIGNMENT PURPOSE

The Lone Star State has much to say.

For this assignment, personify Texas with a human identity and give us a piece of its mind from this perspective.

Poems will be published as accepted here.

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ACCEPTANCE AND PUBLICATION

Upon acceptance, poems will be published on the first Sunday of the month.

PUBLICATION RIGHTS

Writers will retain all rights to their work published on this site.

FORMAL INTERESTS

We are specifically interested in poems that demonstrate careful attention to the elements of shape, line, music, comparison, and balance, and especially how those choices contribute to the cooperative harmony of structure and sentiment in the poem.

Poems that do not meet these interests may be declined. For more on this perspective, see the five formal causes of beauty in poetry.

We also challenge you to consider new choices you might take in the audience and poetic form as they pertain to aspects of narrative perspective, shape, sound, repetition, and enjambment.