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Hagiography [1]

Poetry [2]
10.27.15

After All Hallows’ Eve comes All Saints’ Day. The good news: Hagiography is a treasure trove of unique material for poems. Write a poem in the voice of a famous saint [3] who has returned for this day. What would he or she make of the modern world? Would the remnants of present-day Halloween festivities leave the saint perplexed, mystified, even horrified? Challenge yourself to make the common rituals [4] of modern life seem foreign and charged with possible meaning.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/hagiography [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] http://www.biographyonline.net/spiritual/famous-saints.html [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2a3nbTrO_c