The Moment as Poetry
How a borrowed ladder can be elevated in poetry.… Read More The Moment as Poetry
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Writing Prompts: Find Your Phrases
I’ve been working from a cheat sheet of sorts — Bernadette Mayer’s List of Journal Ideas — to create some of my poems. The neat thing about such a list is you can choose one of the many ideas and create not one, but many poems or writings from it. Plus, it gets you thinking… Read More Writing Prompts: Find Your Phrases
Poetry Prompts: Start with a Word
The thing I love most about writing poetry is the ability to form something from a single word. Not that fiction or nonfiction doesn’t offer that same opportunity, but there’s something about taking a word, rolling it around in your mind, spilling it onto the paper, and drawing your own bias of what that word… Read More Poetry Prompts: Start with a Word
