What more perfect way to follow the National Poetry Writing Month challenge than with humorous works about the writing process? This week’s contributors give us reason to smile.
The poem “Survey Says” by Lara Dolphin imagines “bad poetry” as the topic on the game show “Family Feud.”
“Dear Mr. Shakespeare” by Janice Canerdy is a spoof rejection of “Macbeth.”
The haiku “Fishing” by Donald Gaither compares writing poetry to a popular pastime.
About Alyce Wilson
Alyce Wilson is the editor of Wild Violet and in her copious spare time writes humor, non-fiction, fiction and poetry and infrequently keeps an online journal. Her first chapbook, Picturebook of the Martyrs; her e-book/pamphlet, Stay Out of the Bin! An Editor's Tips on Getting Published in Lit Mags ; her book of essays and columns, The Art of Life; her humorous nonfiction ebook, Dedicated Idiocy: How Monty Python Fandom Changed My Life, and her newest poetry collection, Owning the Ghosts, can all be ordered from her Web site, AlyceWilson.com. In late 2019, she published a volume of poetry by her third great-grandfather, Reading's Physician Poet: Poems by Dr. James Meredith Mathews, which also contains genealogical information about the Mathews family. She lives with her husband and son in the Philadelphia area and takes far too many photos of her handsome, creative son, nicknamed Kung Fu Panda.
