1215.today Poet-in-Residence Round Up: Week 4

It’s been another busy week for our 1215.today Poet-in-Residence, Remi Graves.

• • On Monday, Remi explore a ‘positive vision for the future’, setting out the intention to investigate different relationships to “utopia” throughout the week.

• • On Tuesday, Remi reminisced about dancing to Janelle Monae with sisters, discussing the empowerment & hope of lyrics and asking for your own manifestos for a bright future.

• • “My neighbours daughter has created a city”. On Wednesday, Remi shared Alicia Ostriker’s 1937 poem ‘Utopia’.

• • Remi blogged about the artist Cornelia Parker on Thursday, who created the work ‘Meteorite Lands on Wormwood Scrubs’ as part of the British Council’s Private Utopias project.

• • On Friday, 1215.today uploaded Remi’s own creative response – a new poem, ‘Dawn’

   

  ‘In the cracks between dawn and awake

  I dreamagine the kind of school

  my children’s children might frequent…’