I Remember

Christie Valentin-Bati

August 18, 2023

What do we remember?

 

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Prompt: 

Write a poem in which every line begins “I remember” and then, write what it is you remember! Try to play around with form and let yourself write long paragraph-length memories and short memories that are just lists of things like objects or people or venues.


Christie Valentin-Bati

Christie Valentin-Bati

Christie Valentin-Bati (she/her) is a poetry MFA candidate and instructor at Columbia College Chicago. She considers herself a multi-genre artist working through writing and photographic mediums. Her work dives into the quotidian, the body, experimentation with hybridity and visual elements of text, and understanding “the uncanny.”