I attended an event recently at UVA's Fralin Museum about a literary competition called "Writer's Eye." The challenge is open to youth, high school and university students, and adults. Contestants are to submit poems or prose inspired by selected works of art in the museum.
A past judge of the competition spoke on the importance for writers to use "fresh" similes and metaphors -- and that's not an easy thing to do! She had the audience try -- for instance, give an example of how "sadness" sounds -- and it wasn't easy!
I mention this because I've been plogging (poetry blogging) lately about my "Top Ten References to Nature by Emily Dickinson," and a particular simile of Dickinson's landed a poem in the #2 slot on my list. Let's just say that the comparison was in fact a "fresh" simile -- or should I say, I "fresh" slant? The post about the poem is HERE.
I'll post #1 on my "Top Ten" list soon.
A past judge of the competition spoke on the importance for writers to use "fresh" similes and metaphors -- and that's not an easy thing to do! She had the audience try -- for instance, give an example of how "sadness" sounds -- and it wasn't easy!
I mention this because I've been plogging (poetry blogging) lately about my "Top Ten References to Nature by Emily Dickinson," and a particular simile of Dickinson's landed a poem in the #2 slot on my list. Let's just say that the comparison was in fact a "fresh" simile -- or should I say, I "fresh" slant? The post about the poem is HERE.
I'll post #1 on my "Top Ten" list soon.
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