Erratum

CRAFT TERM

Oct 26

Erratum is a statement of a error and its correction inserted, usually on a separate page or slip of paper, in a book or other publication.

via Dictionary.com

Example

Printed at the back of a book, or inserted as an additional page you might find an erratum such as Harold Pinter's...

On page 13 the third line of the second stanza should read:
Over the boulder and the moonlit hill,

Prompt

Two Truths and A Lie: using previously written poem drafts, find lines that have errors or that feel erroneous. Next, compile two of these lines together with one new line (or image). In this sense, the errors will be become your "truths" and the new line will be your "lie."

Keep repeating this pattern until you've created a 21 line poem.

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Kelsey Bryan-Zwick

is a disabled, queer, bilingual immigrant, and author based in Los Angeles, California. Their debut poetry collection, Here Go the Knives (Moon Tide Press 2022)—part memoir, part magical realism, part illustration—focuses on their decades surviving with debilitating scoliosis. Kelsey is The Poetry Lab’s Assistant Director, a Los Angeles Poet Society organizer, and Acting Chair of Produced Media for the Stonewall Democratic Club. Kelsey is a UC Santa Cruz alum (go banana slugs!) and their poetry has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, as well for the Best of the Net. On the gram @theexquisitepoet. Kelsey uses she/her and they/them pronouns.

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