Potential Titles: Art/Craft [category]
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Act.
Aesthetic:
Make emptiness an acquired aesthetic - Stephanie Heit "Dear Murderer"
Sent round his cards for aesthetics and tea - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"
Allegory:
allegory writing me into a fold of stillness - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"
Anthology:
An anthology of sunsets layered upon each other - R.B. Lemberg "The Rotten Leaf Cantata"
Arabesque.
Art.
Author.
Ballet.
Baroque:
With lovely baroque convolutions of thought - Lee Ann Brown "Sustain Petal"
Such clockish & baroque motions - David Hornibrook "Signs"
At once Baroque and Paleolithic - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
Wallowing in an orgy of Baroque facades and Victorian gingerbread - Samantha Pious "Interior Castle" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]
Book.
Bricolage:
a bricolage of place & memory - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Blueprint For An African American Space Station"
Broadcast:
Each broadcast and jingle tricking me - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"
Brutalist:
What's visible from inside a Brutalist building - Ari Banias "Curriculum"
Fraudulent windows in a Brutalist structure - Maureen N. McLane "They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century"
Cabaret:
Cabarets and songs, and deadening wine - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Sonnet [I had no thought of violets of late]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Elephants in cabaret dresses reddish & cadmium blue - Juan Felipe Herrera "Saturday Night at the Buddhist Cinema"
Death becomes an empty cabaret - Langston Hughes "Sport"
Confiscated our cabaret licenses - David Wojahn "Another Epistle to Frank O'Hara"
Calligraphy.
Carpentry:
Clever carpenters who follow the times - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
And down with it the carpenter unto the beasts below - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Death too is a carpenter - Mary Oliver "Pilot Snake"
Cartoon:
The cartoon version of movement - Hoa Nguyen "Overseas Vietnamese"
Carve.
Caryatid:
Like vast Caryatids upholding the age - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
Celadon:
Warn each other in teal or celadon - Brenda Hillman "Species Prepare to Exist After Money"
lit by translucent jade and celadon lamps - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"
Ceramic:
A tote bag full of ceramic souvenirs - Helene Achanzar "The only poem I can write"
Ceramic tributes to the moon - Ira Goga "The Kitchen, Indexed"
Found my body in ceramic pieces - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Could break their ceramic silence - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Charcoal.
Chiaroscuro:
Watch the chiaroscuro movie of my mind - Mary Jo Bang "Our Evening Is Over Us"
A war trots out of your chiaroscuro head - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"
Choreography:
A minimal choreography of absence - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"
Precarious choreography of bicycles - Safia Elhillo "Amsterdam"
How much choreographed relief a kingdom tolerates - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
Cinema.
Collage:
Time affords us chaos and collage - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen g"
A festival of collaged laughter - Major Jackson "Spain"
A collage of lost evenings - Maggie Nelson "For Lily on Her 25th Birthday"
Comedy.
Comics:
Selling stolen comics for eight bucks and change - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
Filled your streets with your comic Pentecost - T.M. Kettle "Asquith in Dublin"
Commedia:
Pasteboard riddles and commedia deadpan - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"
Concrete Poetry:
Sketch a Jackson Pollock splatter of concrete poetry - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Contre-Dance:
Maddened nations at their contre-dance - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Craft.
Create/Creation.
Critic/Critique.
Cubism:
A giant cubist mosaic of their prophet - Michelle Wirth "Campus"
Curate:
curated with loving precision - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"
Some curated notion of now - Mary Jo Bang "The Actual Occurences"
Dadaism:
Rebrand & rewrite their Dadaist daydreams - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
Daguerreotype:
An auburn molt of daguerreotypes - T.J. Anderson III "Ancestors Are Calling"
Dance.
Depression Glass:
Tulips and pink depression glass - Megan Fernandes "Amsterdam"
Design.
Doodle:
Idle doodles and arbitrary scratches - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Write"
Drama.
Draw/Drew.
Elegy.
Emboss.
Embroider.
Engrave.
Entertain.
Epic.
Essay.
Etch.
Existentialism:
Existentialism is imposed upon me - Jie Cohen "Venus Limbs"
Expressionism:
A flowing expressionist relief of mythic proportions - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Potential Titles: Fabric/Fiber - Ways to Work with Them [category].
Fairy Tale.
Farce:
Kaleidoscopic hints, to be worked up in farce or tragedy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Because only I knew how to end the farce - Walter Léon Hess "Feline Philosophy by Thomas Cat: Ninth Caterwaul"
Figurine:
Museum of monkey figurines and butterflies - J. Mae Barizo "Diorama"
Film/Filmy.
Fresco:
In painted frescoes shown - Charles Baudelaire "The Evil Monk" transl. not credited
A spackled fresco of sky - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
Give subtle grace to frescoed ceilings - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"
Frescos flake away as sleet holds us in its teeth - Dean Young "Bronzed" [Poetry April 2005]
Frieze:
The frozen music of a frieze - Maurice Baring "Phedre"
Ganymede fleeing on a temple frieze - Dan Chiasson "Tackle Football"
Drenched stars' ancient frieze - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"
Crosshatched with a lacquer frieze of ink - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"
Genre:
That choosing genres is a luxury - K. Iver "Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco"
Ghostwrite:
Ghostwriting the low-tide mark - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Graffiti.
Haiku:
As sharp and as multilayered as Basho's haiku - Keith Taylor "What's Needed Now"
Hologram/Holographic:
holographic hagiographies remember our heroes - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"
Holographic moth wings that shine like chalk drawings - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Transmute into an hologram of grace - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"
Her eyes are the doors to a holographic universe - Tiffany Higgins "Medusa on Sansom and Pine" [Poetry Nov. 2013]
Illustrate:
To illustrate the rain - Billy Collins "A History of Weather"
Inscribe.
Journalism:
A buccaneer on the high seas of journalism - Walter J. Kingsley "Lo, the Press Agent" [The Broadway Anthology]
Telling journalists they are looking into it - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
Lapidary:
The valley's light lapidary in the canyon creases - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
This lapidary of broken things - Richard Scott "Peridot"
Limn:
Lightning limned into a hellish door - C. Edgar Bolen "Lycanthropus"
Limned on the mind's retina - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Limned in his blood across your clearing skies - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"
Pencils of fire limn visions of soul-large desire - T.M. Kettle "Sowing (Written in 1899)"
Literary:
Literary values before the days of YouTube - Elaine Equi "Cats, Now and Forever"
Literature:
The rage for apocalyptic literature - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"
Either chemistry or literature, a catalyst or a metaphor - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"
Mason/Masonry.
Masterpiece:
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece - Shakespeare "Macbeth"
Played the makings of a masterpiece off-key - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"
Media:
Mix media on slow water - Janet Kauffman "Keratella Offshore"
A commodifying media and its monopolizing imagination - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
Melodrama:
Discover melodrama in the windows - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"
Mime:
And builds a stage to mime its listless tragedy - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
November sky mimes heaven - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"
To mime with sorrow for a mask - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Model.
Montage:
As dusky birds brushed blues into a montage - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Morris Dance:
Your morrice-dance on moonlit nights - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: II. The Council"
A walk across a montage of darkness - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
A morrice chime of jostled bells - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"
Mosaic.
Motown:
The motown long plays for the comeback of Osiris - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Movie.
Mummery:
Dead mummers of forgotten fantasies - Geoffrey Dearmer "Reality"
This revel of quick-cued mumming - Thomas Hardy "According to the Mighty Working"
Mural:
Gems of the East her mural crown adorn - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
The penciled-in figure on the painted-over mural of time - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"
Musical Instruments [category].
Musical Tools and Terms [category].
Musical Works [category].
Narrative.
Neoclassical:
Lit the air around those neoclassic nights - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"
Newsreel:
Newsreels captured the death of a star - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Novel.
Oratory:
Had oratory for its own defence - Aldous Huxley "Formal Verses II: [Ah, those were days of silent happiness!]"
Each ridge practicing an oration of scale and crest - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"
Smoke screens of oratory - Kim Unsong "Expand Territory"
Of frangipani and dark oratory roses - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"
Origami.
Paint.
Pantomime.
Papier-Mache:
The next house made of papier-mache - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"
A hilltop made of papier mache - Neil Gaiman "House"
Sleep's faded papier-mache - Wallace Stevens "Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself"
A museum erected out of paper-mache - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"
Parody:
Make a parody of paradise - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets III"
Pasquinade:
Scrawls undeterred his bitter pasquinade - Herman Melville "Clarel" [excerpt - Epilogue]
Patchwork.
Pentameter:
Lost and missed in minor-key pentameter - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"
Pentimento:
The geometric outline a pentimento - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Perform.
Photo/Photograph.
Pirouette.
Play.
Playwright:
Six hundred separate souls the playwright's puppet has to woo - Murdock Pemberton "Matinee" [The Broadway Anthology]
Podcast:
In podcast and electronic ink - Fady Joudah "[...]"
Poetry/Poem.
Polaroid:
Faded polaroids stacked in a keepsake box - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Police Procedural:
Gives birth to another police procedural - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"
Polychrome:
Large stars with polychrome needles - Amy Lowell "Vintage"
Porcelain.
Portrait.
Post-Modernist:
Falling up the vertebrae of post-modernist architecture - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"
Pottery.
Prestidigitation:
Caught no hint of prestidigitation - Robert Graves "The Lord Chamberlain Tells of a Famous Meeting"
Print.
Puppet.
Pyrotechnic:
As pyrotechnic stars fall on already fragile dreams - Ian Goh "Firework"
Quatrain:
Pure quatrain in a poet's heart - Waitman Barbe "The Fly Leaf"
Realism:
Realism hastening down that leaden street - Paul Cameron Brown "The Gathering of Dead Wood"
Recite/Recital.
Refurbish:
Plague of old refurbished buildings - Salik Shah "Field Notes"
Rhetoric.
Rococo:
A rococo footbridge hard at work holding up some dumb illusion - Brian Tierney "Catering"
Saga:
A saga of cities ancient and buried - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall
To sing me sagas of your late delights - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"
Until your mood wearied of saga - Vita Sackville-West "Irruption"
Sarabande:
A sarabande the wind mowed on the mead - Hart Crane "Repose of Rivers"
Satire:
Swift with satire as with sally - Harry Graham "The Last Horsed 'Bus"
The satyrizing Muse has themes sufficient - "The Whore"
Script.
Sculpture.
Scumble:
With smoke still scumbling the air - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"
Shadow Puppet:
Some perverse shadow puppet flailing - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"
Showstopper:
The canvas for another sunset showstopper - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
Sketch.
Slapstick:
Nonlinear slapstick meets slasher flick - Chen Chen "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party"
speed into tomorrow's slapstick - Kaie Kellough "if who"
Thought it was slapstick throughout - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
A heart's slapstick hiccup - Hailey Leithauser "We Few Born beneath a Bitter Star"
Smith:
Who is the smith or athena of this? - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"
Spells of women and smiths and wizards - "The Deer's Cry" transl. by Kuno Meyer
As the smith the glowing anvil strikes - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
smith my silence to an iron gate - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"
Snapshot:
Snapshots of all the people who've gotten lost - Jeffrey McDaniel "Compulsively Allergic to the Truth"
The ones that are snapshots of fear - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"
Softshoe:
A tattered flag's ragtime softshoe these lines will never do - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"
Sonnet.
Soundtrack:
How it needs a good soundtrack - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
Stained Glass:
Arrange the facets of stained glass into story - N. Scott Momaday "The Dragon of Saint-Bertrand-De-Comminges"
Statue.
Steampunk:
Daft, round-the-world steampunk wagers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Stencil:
Stencilled on the petals of a bluebell - Helene Johnson "Trees at Night"
Built of stencils and explosive devices - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Still Life.
Story.
Storybook:
Eke out a living on storybook memories - Paul Cameron Brown "Vertigo"
The world remained a storybook - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
A spill of storybook umber - Kiki Petrosino "Approaching the Smith Family Graveyard"
The happiest ending that can come out of a storybook - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"
Surrealism.
Tailor.
Tap-Dance:
Tap-dancing in the hell writers make for themselves - Theodora Goss "The Red Shoes"
Tap-dancing up a crystal stair - Hailey Leithauser "The Old Woman Gets Drunk with the Moon"
Tapestry.
Television/TV.
Theater.
Tragedy/Tragic.
Two-Step:
Two-step with beloved ghosts - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"
Vaudeville:
A post-tribulationist vaudeville act of God - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
Ventriloquism:
A ventriloquist of the night - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Flesh, pulse and shadow's ventriloquisms - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
Yearning to ring around a ventriloquist's echo - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"
Video:
Still playing in videos past her presence - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
Permanent footprints in a video landscape - Ann K. Schwader "Minions of the Moon"
still the tint of video game to your voice - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
Watercolor:
That watercolor done in greens - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Sweatless as watercolour under glass - Thom Gunn "Autumn Chapter in a Novel"
Weave/Wove.
Whittle.
Write.
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Act.
Aesthetic:
Make emptiness an acquired aesthetic - Stephanie Heit "Dear Murderer"
Sent round his cards for aesthetics and tea - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"
Allegory:
allegory writing me into a fold of stillness - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"
Anthology:
An anthology of sunsets layered upon each other - R.B. Lemberg "The Rotten Leaf Cantata"
Arabesque.
Art.
Author.
Ballet.
Baroque:
With lovely baroque convolutions of thought - Lee Ann Brown "Sustain Petal"
Such clockish & baroque motions - David Hornibrook "Signs"
At once Baroque and Paleolithic - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
Wallowing in an orgy of Baroque facades and Victorian gingerbread - Samantha Pious "Interior Castle" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]
Book.
Bricolage:
a bricolage of place & memory - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Blueprint For An African American Space Station"
Broadcast:
Each broadcast and jingle tricking me - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"
Brutalist:
What's visible from inside a Brutalist building - Ari Banias "Curriculum"
Fraudulent windows in a Brutalist structure - Maureen N. McLane "They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century"
Cabaret:
Cabarets and songs, and deadening wine - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Sonnet [I had no thought of violets of late]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Elephants in cabaret dresses reddish & cadmium blue - Juan Felipe Herrera "Saturday Night at the Buddhist Cinema"
Death becomes an empty cabaret - Langston Hughes "Sport"
Confiscated our cabaret licenses - David Wojahn "Another Epistle to Frank O'Hara"
Calligraphy.
Carpentry:
Clever carpenters who follow the times - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
And down with it the carpenter unto the beasts below - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Death too is a carpenter - Mary Oliver "Pilot Snake"
Cartoon:
The cartoon version of movement - Hoa Nguyen "Overseas Vietnamese"
Carve.
Caryatid:
Like vast Caryatids upholding the age - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
Celadon:
Warn each other in teal or celadon - Brenda Hillman "Species Prepare to Exist After Money"
lit by translucent jade and celadon lamps - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"
Ceramic:
A tote bag full of ceramic souvenirs - Helene Achanzar "The only poem I can write"
Ceramic tributes to the moon - Ira Goga "The Kitchen, Indexed"
Found my body in ceramic pieces - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Could break their ceramic silence - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Charcoal.
Chiaroscuro:
Watch the chiaroscuro movie of my mind - Mary Jo Bang "Our Evening Is Over Us"
A war trots out of your chiaroscuro head - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"
Choreography:
A minimal choreography of absence - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"
Precarious choreography of bicycles - Safia Elhillo "Amsterdam"
How much choreographed relief a kingdom tolerates - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
Cinema.
Collage:
Time affords us chaos and collage - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen g"
A festival of collaged laughter - Major Jackson "Spain"
A collage of lost evenings - Maggie Nelson "For Lily on Her 25th Birthday"
Comedy.
Comics:
Selling stolen comics for eight bucks and change - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
Filled your streets with your comic Pentecost - T.M. Kettle "Asquith in Dublin"
Commedia:
Pasteboard riddles and commedia deadpan - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"
Concrete Poetry:
Sketch a Jackson Pollock splatter of concrete poetry - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Contre-Dance:
Maddened nations at their contre-dance - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Craft.
Create/Creation.
Critic/Critique.
Cubism:
A giant cubist mosaic of their prophet - Michelle Wirth "Campus"
Curate:
curated with loving precision - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"
Some curated notion of now - Mary Jo Bang "The Actual Occurences"
Dadaism:
Rebrand & rewrite their Dadaist daydreams - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
Daguerreotype:
An auburn molt of daguerreotypes - T.J. Anderson III "Ancestors Are Calling"
Dance.
Depression Glass:
Tulips and pink depression glass - Megan Fernandes "Amsterdam"
Design.
Doodle:
Idle doodles and arbitrary scratches - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Write"
Drama.
Draw/Drew.
Elegy.
Emboss.
Embroider.
Engrave.
Entertain.
Epic.
Essay.
Etch.
Existentialism:
Existentialism is imposed upon me - Jie Cohen "Venus Limbs"
Expressionism:
A flowing expressionist relief of mythic proportions - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Potential Titles: Fabric/Fiber - Ways to Work with Them [category].
Fairy Tale.
Farce:
Kaleidoscopic hints, to be worked up in farce or tragedy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Because only I knew how to end the farce - Walter Léon Hess "Feline Philosophy by Thomas Cat: Ninth Caterwaul"
Figurine:
Museum of monkey figurines and butterflies - J. Mae Barizo "Diorama"
Film/Filmy.
Fresco:
In painted frescoes shown - Charles Baudelaire "The Evil Monk" transl. not credited
A spackled fresco of sky - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
Give subtle grace to frescoed ceilings - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"
Frescos flake away as sleet holds us in its teeth - Dean Young "Bronzed" [Poetry April 2005]
Frieze:
The frozen music of a frieze - Maurice Baring "Phedre"
Ganymede fleeing on a temple frieze - Dan Chiasson "Tackle Football"
Drenched stars' ancient frieze - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"
Crosshatched with a lacquer frieze of ink - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"
Genre:
That choosing genres is a luxury - K. Iver "Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco"
Ghostwrite:
Ghostwriting the low-tide mark - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Graffiti.
Haiku:
As sharp and as multilayered as Basho's haiku - Keith Taylor "What's Needed Now"
Hologram/Holographic:
holographic hagiographies remember our heroes - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"
Holographic moth wings that shine like chalk drawings - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Transmute into an hologram of grace - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"
Her eyes are the doors to a holographic universe - Tiffany Higgins "Medusa on Sansom and Pine" [Poetry Nov. 2013]
Illustrate:
To illustrate the rain - Billy Collins "A History of Weather"
Inscribe.
Journalism:
A buccaneer on the high seas of journalism - Walter J. Kingsley "Lo, the Press Agent" [The Broadway Anthology]
Telling journalists they are looking into it - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
Lapidary:
The valley's light lapidary in the canyon creases - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
This lapidary of broken things - Richard Scott "Peridot"
Limn:
Lightning limned into a hellish door - C. Edgar Bolen "Lycanthropus"
Limned on the mind's retina - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Limned in his blood across your clearing skies - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"
Pencils of fire limn visions of soul-large desire - T.M. Kettle "Sowing (Written in 1899)"
Literary:
Literary values before the days of YouTube - Elaine Equi "Cats, Now and Forever"
Literature:
The rage for apocalyptic literature - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"
Either chemistry or literature, a catalyst or a metaphor - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"
Mason/Masonry.
Masterpiece:
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece - Shakespeare "Macbeth"
Played the makings of a masterpiece off-key - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"
Media:
Mix media on slow water - Janet Kauffman "Keratella Offshore"
A commodifying media and its monopolizing imagination - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
Melodrama:
Discover melodrama in the windows - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"
Mime:
And builds a stage to mime its listless tragedy - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
November sky mimes heaven - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"
To mime with sorrow for a mask - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Model.
Montage:
As dusky birds brushed blues into a montage - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Morris Dance:
Your morrice-dance on moonlit nights - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: II. The Council"
A walk across a montage of darkness - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
A morrice chime of jostled bells - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"
Mosaic.
Motown:
The motown long plays for the comeback of Osiris - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Movie.
Mummery:
Dead mummers of forgotten fantasies - Geoffrey Dearmer "Reality"
This revel of quick-cued mumming - Thomas Hardy "According to the Mighty Working"
Mural:
Gems of the East her mural crown adorn - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
The penciled-in figure on the painted-over mural of time - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"
Musical Instruments [category].
Musical Tools and Terms [category].
Musical Works [category].
Narrative.
Neoclassical:
Lit the air around those neoclassic nights - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"
Newsreel:
Newsreels captured the death of a star - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Novel.
Oratory:
Had oratory for its own defence - Aldous Huxley "Formal Verses II: [Ah, those were days of silent happiness!]"
Each ridge practicing an oration of scale and crest - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"
Smoke screens of oratory - Kim Unsong "Expand Territory"
Of frangipani and dark oratory roses - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"
Origami.
Paint.
Pantomime.
Papier-Mache:
The next house made of papier-mache - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"
A hilltop made of papier mache - Neil Gaiman "House"
Sleep's faded papier-mache - Wallace Stevens "Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself"
A museum erected out of paper-mache - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"
Parody:
Make a parody of paradise - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets III"
Pasquinade:
Scrawls undeterred his bitter pasquinade - Herman Melville "Clarel" [excerpt - Epilogue]
Patchwork.
Pentameter:
Lost and missed in minor-key pentameter - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"
Pentimento:
The geometric outline a pentimento - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Perform.
Photo/Photograph.
Pirouette.
Play.
Playwright:
Six hundred separate souls the playwright's puppet has to woo - Murdock Pemberton "Matinee" [The Broadway Anthology]
Podcast:
In podcast and electronic ink - Fady Joudah "[...]"
Poetry/Poem.
Polaroid:
Faded polaroids stacked in a keepsake box - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Police Procedural:
Gives birth to another police procedural - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"
Polychrome:
Large stars with polychrome needles - Amy Lowell "Vintage"
Porcelain.
Portrait.
Post-Modernist:
Falling up the vertebrae of post-modernist architecture - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"
Pottery.
Prestidigitation:
Caught no hint of prestidigitation - Robert Graves "The Lord Chamberlain Tells of a Famous Meeting"
Print.
Puppet.
Pyrotechnic:
As pyrotechnic stars fall on already fragile dreams - Ian Goh "Firework"
Quatrain:
Pure quatrain in a poet's heart - Waitman Barbe "The Fly Leaf"
Realism:
Realism hastening down that leaden street - Paul Cameron Brown "The Gathering of Dead Wood"
Recite/Recital.
Refurbish:
Plague of old refurbished buildings - Salik Shah "Field Notes"
Rhetoric.
Rococo:
A rococo footbridge hard at work holding up some dumb illusion - Brian Tierney "Catering"
Saga:
A saga of cities ancient and buried - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall
To sing me sagas of your late delights - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"
Until your mood wearied of saga - Vita Sackville-West "Irruption"
Sarabande:
A sarabande the wind mowed on the mead - Hart Crane "Repose of Rivers"
Satire:
Swift with satire as with sally - Harry Graham "The Last Horsed 'Bus"
The satyrizing Muse has themes sufficient - "The Whore"
Script.
Sculpture.
Scumble:
With smoke still scumbling the air - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"
Shadow Puppet:
Some perverse shadow puppet flailing - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"
Showstopper:
The canvas for another sunset showstopper - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
Sketch.
Slapstick:
Nonlinear slapstick meets slasher flick - Chen Chen "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party"
speed into tomorrow's slapstick - Kaie Kellough "if who"
Thought it was slapstick throughout - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
A heart's slapstick hiccup - Hailey Leithauser "We Few Born beneath a Bitter Star"
Smith:
Who is the smith or athena of this? - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"
Spells of women and smiths and wizards - "The Deer's Cry" transl. by Kuno Meyer
As the smith the glowing anvil strikes - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
smith my silence to an iron gate - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"
Snapshot:
Snapshots of all the people who've gotten lost - Jeffrey McDaniel "Compulsively Allergic to the Truth"
The ones that are snapshots of fear - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"
Softshoe:
A tattered flag's ragtime softshoe these lines will never do - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"
Sonnet.
Soundtrack:
How it needs a good soundtrack - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
Stained Glass:
Arrange the facets of stained glass into story - N. Scott Momaday "The Dragon of Saint-Bertrand-De-Comminges"
Statue.
Steampunk:
Daft, round-the-world steampunk wagers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Stencil:
Stencilled on the petals of a bluebell - Helene Johnson "Trees at Night"
Built of stencils and explosive devices - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Still Life.
Story.
Storybook:
Eke out a living on storybook memories - Paul Cameron Brown "Vertigo"
The world remained a storybook - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
A spill of storybook umber - Kiki Petrosino "Approaching the Smith Family Graveyard"
The happiest ending that can come out of a storybook - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"
Surrealism.
Tailor.
Tap-Dance:
Tap-dancing in the hell writers make for themselves - Theodora Goss "The Red Shoes"
Tap-dancing up a crystal stair - Hailey Leithauser "The Old Woman Gets Drunk with the Moon"
Tapestry.
Television/TV.
Theater.
Tragedy/Tragic.
Two-Step:
Two-step with beloved ghosts - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"
Vaudeville:
A post-tribulationist vaudeville act of God - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
Ventriloquism:
A ventriloquist of the night - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Flesh, pulse and shadow's ventriloquisms - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
Yearning to ring around a ventriloquist's echo - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"
Video:
Still playing in videos past her presence - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
Permanent footprints in a video landscape - Ann K. Schwader "Minions of the Moon"
still the tint of video game to your voice - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
Watercolor:
That watercolor done in greens - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Sweatless as watercolour under glass - Thom Gunn "Autumn Chapter in a Novel"
Weave/Wove.
Whittle.
Write.
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