26 has always focussed on the importance of letters. But what if that 26 became 22? What if we had just one vowel to choose from?
For our February mini-project we are asking 26ers to try their hands at univocal poems – poems of any length (from one-liners, to sonnets, to Virgilian epics), that use just one of the 5 English vowels: A, E, I, O, or U.
The hope is to prove that each vowel has its own personality, and to explore that personality while demonstrating the flexibility of the English language; nudging you in new directions with your writing, and towards new corners of vocabulary you would otherwise rarely explore.
Read the Full brief.
Brown owl looks
From crook of nook.
“Go on fox.”
Fox prowls.
Owl swoops.
“Ow!”
“Pow!”
Blood pops.
– Olivia Sprinkel
“Y” was generally not considered a vowel for this project, but acknowledging that, here’s a bonus from Regina Beach:
Y Hymn
Mysts pry dryth
Cymry cry myths:
Shy lynx’s wry trysts,
Nymph’s hymns,
Sphynx’s glyphs,
Lyms slyly jynx my crypt
Fly by llyns, syrts
Dry vlys cry, scry
Sky: thy syzygy synchs
– Regina Beach