“Love Letters”
C. Lofty Bolling
February 27, 2024
This workshop is designed to help me give thanks and show gratitude to the objects and things around us.
Pre-writing:
Write a list of objects that you use daily, can be a toothbrush, floss, shoes, socks, a pillow, a mug etc.
Source Material:
- Ode to my socks by Pablo Neruda
Prompt:
After you make your list, chose one object to write a love letter to. Chose another object from the list and write a love letter to yourself from the perspective of the object.
C. Lofty Bolling
C.Lofty Bolling (they/them) is a black, queer, and southern poet who has recently relocated to Chicago in 2021 and have been writing poetry regularly since middle school, self publishing since their senior year of high school. Through their poetry they explore notions of identity formations, the quantum imagination, history, ontology and voodoo practices. They have 6 self published works titled, Lofty (2019), The Aquarius’ Aquarium (2019), Blue and Orange (2020), Unloc’d (2021), Black Atlanteans (2021) and The Master’s House (2021) and additional individual poems published through Lupercalia Press, and Rigorous Press.