The Blair Bitch Poetry Projects

I stumbled upon Chinie Hidalgo’s “The Blair Bitch Project: A Book of Bitchy Poetry” and I can’t help but follow it up with her next book, “The Blair Bitch Returns: Another Book of Bitchy Poetry". And since it was a quick read, I made my unsolicited remarks right away.

The author compiled her own series of “bitchy” poems, all of which, I must say, were witty and funny. The words used were simple, the poems light and easy-to-understand. There was no deep usage of different figures of speech, just plain simple poetry writing. The rhymes were well-written. Surprisingly, the poems were metered – a poetry-making attribute which new-age poets aka free-style artists fail to use nowadays.

I love reading poems and I struggle to be a “good” poet at the same time. Goodness is relative and if the reader is my mother, I’ll probably be one of the best. Anyway, poetry lovers have always loved poets who know how to craft thought-provoking metaphors.
I myself can’t help but be placed in a hypnotic trance after reading a deep poem line. However, poem-critiques also look in factors such as rhyme and meter. I rarely see them nowadays.

Try to imagine how difficult it is to create poems with intact meter, well-crafted rhymes, and mind-boggling use of wordplay and figures of speech. If you encounter one today, ask the person if he/she is a time-traveler as well. Chances are that poet came from the Shakespearean era.

Here is one of my favorites from Ms. Hidalgo’s first book. Please click the image for a bigger view. Notice the cute illustrations done by Ms. Krie Reyes.

And this one is from her 2nd book:


I stringed 4 stars from the depths of the universe and give it to Ms. Hidalgo. Her books are definitely worth-sharing. I think even non-poetry lovers would like it.

Images were scanned from the books.

Too bad the 2 Blair Bitch Projects are not yet on Shelfari despite having ISBN. I wonder how one registers a book in it.