At UMES, where I teach creative writing, I am trying to get my students interested in participating in a play about body positivity by (hopefully) writing or performing an individual piece.
To do that, I modeled:
#1. Drawing a picture of yourself, and then labelling your features (that is me, above)
#2. Writing a paragraph explaining your labels.
#3. Cutting the paragraph up into verse.
Did it go well for them? I’m not sure. So far no one has spontaneously volunteered!
It did go well for me. I have a whole new poem that I will attempt, in the coming months, to publish. Boy, that publishing thing is a slow process. My sympathy to those who ask me to publish them, and have to wait for me. There’s just not enough hours in the day.
In any case….
If you were to draw yourself, how would you label yourself, and why?
Poem with me, won’t you?
PS: I was wearing a mask when I did this drawing, but I drew me without it because it was an important part of who I am to show that I am waaaay toooo happy, all the time. It’s weird. Masks aren’t. Take care of each other. xo
TOO HAPPY (Holland Taylor is the best!):
