The May Day Poetry Project

Friday, April 24, 2009

Identity: Tracy Hamon

Years on Planet MayDay: 4

Place of inspiration: Regina, SK

Goals: The idea this year is to gather evidence about an old allegorical tale and make it contemporary. The story is Samson and Delilah; however, due to the privacy of the aforementioned individuals, the names shall henceforth be known as Jay and Ellie. How many poems I post will depend on how the poetry seems to be working. Or not.

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andie said...: k so that's a really cool premise.

i'm thinking old testament meets "married with children"; 5/02/2009 3:33 AM

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Origins

Welcome to May Day 2015!

Since Joanne Epp is busy launching her first poetry collection this spring, I've offered to gather the poets for The May Day Poetry Project's eleventh season.

I look forward to another month of making beautiful words together.

- Angeline

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Every year I have greatly appreciated this annual collective outpouring of new work and the conversation that goes along with it.

The population of the group has been slightly different each year, but it still holds to the original principle of helping each other and being helped in our development as artists.

-Joanne

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The name of the May Day Poetry Project comes from the internationally recognized distress signal that in its turn came from the French "m'aider" (or "help me").

It's also "a modern working class celebration and commemoration that came from the 1886 events in Chicago where workers were demonstrating for an eight hour day."

And since I think good art comes out of both the individual and the community, both being helped and making sure you get what you need, I thought it was an appropriate moniker for this effort.

Also, it happened to be a project we were doing during the month of May.

And it sounded sort of snappy. - Ariel

The May Day Poetry Project

Friday, April 24, 2009

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