![]() ![]() ![]() It also-and this might be its worst sin-disrupts the flow of a sentence. The problem with the dash-as you may have noticed!-is that it discourages truly efficient writing. What’s not to like about a sentence that explores in full all the punctuational options-sometimes a dash, sometimes an ellipsis, sometimes a nice semicolon at just the right moment-in order to seem more complex and syntactically interesting, to reach its full potential? Doesn’t a dash-if done right-let the writer maintain an elegant, sinewy flow to her sentences? What’s the matter with an em dash or two, you ask?-or so I like to imagine. America’s finest prose-in blogs, magazines, newspapers, or novels-is littered with so many dashes among the dots it’s as if the language is signaling distress in Morse code. The guide does not explicitly say that writers can use the dash in lieu of properly crafting sentences, or instead of a comma or a parenthetical or a colon-and yet in practical usage, we do. Poetry is art, and minting it as such on blockchains has the potential to bring poems into conversations yet unentered.According to the Associated Press Stylebook- Slate’s bible for all things punctuation- and grammar-related-there are two main prose uses-the abrupt change and the series within a phrase-for the em dash. We need poems hanging on walls (both digital and physical) to be lauded for their vulnerability and empathy. Poetry can change the course of humanity, and with the stakes so high we need fewer poems locked in the confines of minds and notebooks. Katie Dozier (KHD): “I write NFT poetry because every poem that flies out into the world encourages more to leave their nests. In a sense, we are just em dashes sliding through time. What would Emily Dickinson have minted if she lived in our contemporary world? Perhaps instead of locking her poems up in a trunk, we would’ve been treated to Dickinson Discords and more quatrain creations than we could even keep up with! This Little Poem, my first mint of 2023, looks back at one of my favorite poets, in order to celebrate the immense opportunities alive in poetry today. Like studying the root origins of a word, I like to trace the stem of NFT poetry backwards through the centuries. A Juror Must Fold … by Kathleen McClung.A Plumber’s Guide to Light by Jesse Bertron.The Death of a Migrant Worker by Gil Arzola.I Will Pass Even to Acheron by Amanda Newell.Imago, Dei by Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose.Visiting Her in Queens … by Michael Mark.The Morning You Saw … by CooXooEii Black.“On My First Day of Kindergarten” by Miracle Thornton.“What Next, What Next?” by Christine Potter.“On Learning that Woodpeckers Don’t Have Shock-Absorbing Skulls” by Matthew King.
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