For my final draft, I spent a long time going over and thinking about the poems that I wrote. I played around with line breaks, stanza breaks, and added and replaced words here and there. I kept thinking back to the workshop where I remember being told that some of the poems felt as though I were still thinking while writing them rather than knowing what I wanted to say/convey there and then. I tried to tackle that issue in my final draft, and I think I did an OK job. I went ahead and added a poem about my high school and it jumped around with different topics like homophobia, assault, and fear of school shootings (my school got a lot of threats when I attended and there was one instance where we thought we were in a genuine lockdown because of a PA system malfunction). Anyway, here is the project.
Final Project
Dec 12th, 2021 by Emily DuBois