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Prompt–Monday, November 7
Write a lipogram. For more details on oulipo, check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo. And lipograms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipogram. For this lipogram, choose a letter to not use. I will not use “e.” For this rain to fall without a hitch a hiccup or a sigh, I will not say how lilies can see its path.
Prompt–Monday, October 31
Take a book you’ve read recently that you underlined like crazy because you liked the language so much. Now create a found poem with your favorite lines. Feel free to break for lines and whatnot. Name the title and author. Cane by Jean Toomer Over the crest of the hill he couldn’t sing to them. …
Prompt–Sunday, October 23
Describe your favorite homemade meal. Mine’s below. I don’t think many cooks can beat the hot and soft texture of mashed potatoes with butter on top, steaming green beans and slices of chicken breast. All on a blue-rimmed plate ready to travel to your stomach. Accompanied by a glass of water. But you can try.
Prompt–Wednesday, October 12
Find a favorite image from a poem or a piece of fiction that strikes you. Write about it, expand it, use the structure to create something of your own. For mine, one of Jack Kerouac’s haikus. The tree looks like a dog, Barking at heaven. My poem. The blanket is a crown for the cold.
Prompt–Saturday, September 24
Make a list of your favorite short stories, poems, and/or novels, whatever you want. Add to it as you discover new ones. Short Stories: A Good Man is Hard to Find–Flannery O’Connor Porque no Tiene, Porque le Falta–Robert Stone The Oldest Story–Emilia Pardo Bazan Barn Burning–William Faulkner Poems: When I have fears–John Keats Fire and Ice–Robert Frost …
Prompt–Tuesday, September 13
Choose a recent sensory experience that was new for you, or think of one that really grabbed your attention. I gutted a pumpkin last night for its seeds and puree. Here is a poem for you. Not what I expected. Pies are smooth and spicy in a way that brings falling leaves inside. Your insides are …
Prompt–Friday, September 9
Pick up a newspaper and choose a headline that catches your eye. My choice is “Strut a spirited style at games” in The BG News for today and this weekend. Strut the falcon walk to the stadium on the other side. Let those feathers flutter in the wind every single day. *Editor’s note: originally appeared …
Prompt–Monday, September 5
Grab a literary magazine, poetry collection or short story collection for this one. Randomly pick two consecutive lines (or sentences) of two pieces. I grabbed Mid-American Review, Volume 31, number 1. from “Poem for My Father, Who Has Less to Say Now” by Chris Tanseer: “And since it’s winter, the two oaks, still bare of leaves, …
Prompt–Thursday, September 1
I recently acquired my own copy of “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954” by Jack Kerouac, edited by Douglas Brinkley. The prompt is based on the following sentence: “But a farm is my idea of working for a living, above all things” (62). Go. Above All Things Life is work. So is farming. Each …
Suzanna and Writing 