Kitchen Table, My Closest Friend

Chima Ikoro

April 9, 2024

This workshop looks at how objects or places that we have consistently interacted with in our lives can become symbolic of so much more than their original function.

 

 

Pre-writing:

Make a list of things or places that have always been around you personally. Things that might seem minuscule but have been consistently in your life for a long time. You might say an old dresser or a bus stop bench, for example.

Source Material:

• “Perhaps the World Ends Here” by Joy Harjo

Prompt:

Write a poem that is dedicated to one of the objects from your list and refer to it in the way you might a close friend or a sibling. Speak of it as if you know it.

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Chima Ikoro

Chima “Naira” Ikoro (she/they) is an interdisciplinary writer, a student of the Young Chicago Authors’ space since 2014, and a Louder Than A Bomb alum. With poetry as her first language, she took fifth place at the Women of The World Poetry slam in 2020. Currently, she is the Community Organizing section editor at South Side Weekly, and the co-founder of a mutual aid organization, Blck Rising.