Read Kate Daniels’ “The Pedicure” then write a poem about a manicure, pedicure, spa day, haircut, dye job, shaving in the shower, or some other
Month: April 2011
Read “Track 5: Summertime” by Jericho Brown, and then read this interview with him in the Nashville Review, and then write a persona poem that
Read “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop, and then write a villanelle.
Ex-pat Canadians baffled by voting rules.
Read some prose poems, like “Be Drunk” by Charles Baudelaire or some by Charles Simic, and then write one. (You can do this prompt even
Listen to “Terza Rima” by Adrienne Rich, and then write one.
Stirring has just put out their April issue, which contains my “Rex Sestina.”
Read from “thirsty” by Dionne Brand, then write a poem about the city you live in.
Read some of the cinquains of Adelaide Crapsey, and then write a cinquain of your own, or, if you’d rather, a tanka.
Today is the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination forty-three years ago in Memphis, TN. Read “In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.” by June