Rose Jermusyk's latest update for SECONDS, Vol. 1

Apr 2, 2017

Happy National Poetry Month!

Who’s ready for some versified fairy tales? You are, clearly, because here we are talking about it.

Plus - have to say it - Happy International Children’s Literature Day! (because Happy Birthday to Hans Christian Andersen)

This is a very good month for me, except that one year, but we won’t get into it. I’ve delayed the fairy tale goodness from you for too long, so here’s the facts:

  • every day (because, National Poetry Month) I will write and post a new poem inspired by an extant fairy tale (currently working my way through Grimms’ Tales for Young and Old);
  • every Sunday (because this year April ends on a Sunday) you will receive a "digest" of those poems I wrote and posted that week; and,
  • every poem is "subtitled" by the inclusive range of seconds on the clock calculated to determine the lengths of the poems.
Which brings us to now, the first Sunday of April 2017, which, falling on the 2nd of the month, means you get two poems:

  1. Clever Hans
  2. The Three Languages
This brings the running tally of poems (begun last year) to 33 poems out of the planned 129, and 17 minutes plus one second into the 12-hour countdown to "midnight."

See you next week,
Rose

P.S. If you’re interested in getting even more poetry-fun from me this month, there are a number of things you can do:
  1. follow me on twitter and or follow me on periscope; as every day this month I’ll be going live with readings/recitations of individual sonnets from The Original Sonnets of The Penrose Trekkie project.
  2. follow me on instagram; while I’m usually all about holistic storytelling over there (and I still will be) some of the fairy tale poetry I write makes for a lively tune and I have every intention of singing some of them into my IGstories.