The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

891: Uh Huh: Hi, Hula Tooth

06.02.2023 - By American Public MediaPlay

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Today’s poem is Uh Huh: Hi, Hula Tooth by K. Silem Mohammad.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Jason Schneiderman writes… “Today’s poem is part of a series that the poet calls Sonnagrams. He uses a program to rearrange the letters in each of Shakespeare’s sonnets to get a whole new poem, and then he makes a title out of the letters he didn’t use yet. Without knowing that the poem is an anagram of sonnet 135, it might not make a lot of sense. But knowing that it is, you’ll hear both the technical accomplishment of the poem-sized anagram and the playfulness of the composition process.”

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