Write
a poem in the form of a fan letter to a celebrity. It could be anyone –living
or dead-and needn’t be an actor or singer (though it could be).
Dear Roxane Gay,
How I love your
voice: fierce and tender all at once.
your words pour
forth like a river,
bearing the
bad-ass truth of feminism
and the reality
of competitive Scrabble
the scars of
sexual trauma scratched into skin
the desire to
be, to see
yourself, to be
seen
in Miss America
in Vanessa
Williams
Beauty. You have
shown me beauty
in all the
damage, in all the wreckage--
For this, I am
ever grateful.
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