# Somersaults

> We're celebrating Gomp as onchain poet of the month in your weekly poetry shot #206

**Published by:** [trpplffct](https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct/)
**Published on:** 2024-08-09
**Categories:** onchain poetry, poetry, gomp, trpplffct poetry grant fund
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct/wps206

## Content

Collect NFT This week the stage of your weekly poetry shot is for Gomp_art. Gomp is a poet and photographer who has been creating mostly on Tezos. The poem Somersaults, embedded above, is his first on Base and with it, he became the inaugural grantee of the trpplffct poetry grant fund. As he told us in an interview last year, he's "an artist and educator in Cape Cod (Massachusetts, USA) who crafts NFTs from my poetry and photography." His nom-de-plume Gomp "comes from Gomphotherium, an extinct genus of elephant that I read about right when I was starting my deep dive into art on the blockchain." When asked what poetry means to him, he said: "I don't know if I can define it. Words that solicit emotion? Crafted language play? Phrases of sentimental bloodletting? Episodes of catharsis? I thought of this the other day: Graffiti of the heart upon the edifice of the mind. Poetry is something like that." And about why poets should start minting their work onchain, as NFTs, he said: "Jump in. We need your voice." You can read the full interview here. https://paragraph.xyzgomp_art is our Onchain Poet of the MonthCelebrating the poets who create onchain. Our poet of the month for October 2023 is gomp_art. He tells all about his onchain work.The poem Sommersaults can be collected here: Collect NFT You can now support this inbox poetry magazine via Hypersub. Get the weekly poetry shot poems and other poetry NFTs airdropped, enter a monthly poetry postcard raffle and join the Trpplr chat for creative confidence building.https://hypersub.withfabric.xyzSubscribe to Trpplr on HypersubTrpplrs are sending ripples of poetry through the world, to make it more fun. As a Trpplr, you will get: & the great feeling of supporting poetry; & one...Poésie de la vieI'm always impressed by visual artists. And when you see their process videos, it always seems so easy. Until you do it yourself. So, just enjoy the creation of this elephant:","author_url":"https://vimeo.com/user11820704","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Vimeo","thumbnail_url":"https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/447229692-86eea4c4e682b109de729f8b02bb89ea5fc614a6190695014a795d87d6cfd2f0-d_1280","type":"video","thumbnail_height":720}" format="iframe">https://vimeo.com/ELEPHANTAs part of the Drawing Book Studios next group show - Music, we were asked to choose a favourite album or track to illustrate. I could listen to this song all day - that riff and the classic Tame Impala sound always made me visualise an elephant shaking his big great trunk for the hell of it.

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