The May Day Poetry Project: Allô!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Allô!

Un gros bonjour to all my fellow May-Dayers,

My name is Marjo and I'm very pleased to take part in The May Day Poetry Project for a 4th consecutive year. I look forward to meeting up with old friends and making new ones, and as always, I welcome honest feedback from you all.

So what does May have in store for me this year? I suspect there mAy be many voices hovering about me this month, and with that in mind, I've set my personal goal to publishing daily.

Happy May Daying everyone!!

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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

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Allô!

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