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Stars in the Night Sky [1]

Poetry [2]
2.28.23

In “When I See Stars in the Night Sky [3],” Joy Priest writes an ode to the late iconic singer Whitney Houston, tethering her memory to the stars in the sky. “It’s 1988           Her head /             Thrown back against a black backdrop     She is the only thing / glowing       So distant              from us in the universe,” writes Priest. The poem then moves into the personal connection the speaker has with the singer. “I love myself / because of her,” writes Priest. Inspired by this poem, write an ode to your favorite musician placing them, as Priest does, in a specific moment in time.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/stars_in_the_night_sky [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://poets.org/poem/when-i-see-stars-night-sky