Acts of Poetry // 12 \\ Compression and Candor
Compression and Candor Poetry Prompt: Write a poem with as much candor as you can muster. Can you say what needs saying in under 32 words? Or in fewer than eight lines? “Whether it’s a story, a short...
View ArticleActs of Poetry // 13 \\ Write Your Badass Artist Statement
Writing Prompt: A Badass Artist Statement A scenario to get your head into it: The Poets have seized control of the country, inverting the power structure that for so long forced them to the margins....
View ArticleActs of Poetry // 14 \\ Instead of Poems, I’ve Lived
This week’s act of poetry is to write a poem in which some of the other things you do besides writing poems, appear. The following example of such a poem, by the Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, provides...
View ArticleActs of Poetry // 15 \\ Crossing
Poetry Prompt: Crossing (the abyss?) “Both of us are very aware that we are mortal. We have no consoling religions, no consoling gods. We understand that we are existentially alone on the planet. We...
View ArticleAct of Poetry // 17 \\ Dream Fragments
In pre-light bulb U.S.A. people slept, on average, 9.5 hours a day. These days, a lot of people are undermined by high-grade exhaustion that costs us clarity of mind, balance of spirit, cheer and the...
View ArticleActs of Poetry // 18 \\ If You Wish to Become
Today’s writing prompt comes via the poet and writer, Brit Washburn. We’ve been sharing reading recommendations and our own work, for more than twenty years. This particular poem reminds me of who we...
View ArticleAct of Poetry // 19 \\ Write a Sequence, Exploit the Gaps
Act of Poetry: Write a poem or series of poems that interweaves elements of the autobiographical or real (possibly including excerpts from diaries, letters, actual conversations) with imagined and...
View ArticleSpring Poetry Forge: Begins May 1
POETRY FORGE is a creative lab, weekly meet-up and invitation to participate in ongoing writing workshops where the generation of new poems or lyric essays is the common purpose. POETRY FORGE provides...
View Article21 Day Poetry Challenge: September 1-Autumn Equinox 2014
Join me for the September Poetry Challenge write a poem, text or poetic fragment each day until Autumn arrives September 1-September 21 How it works: I’ll provide an original writing...
View ArticleSome Small Poems That I Have Loved
I love small poems—the kind that I can read and remember and take with me wherever I go. This morning, in my December Poetry Challenge, I offered an assignment based on the ancient Japanese form called...
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