Face Your Fear: Poetry Prompt
Think back to an incident where you felt real fear--not anxiety or stress or despair, but fear, that mental, emotional, and physical pit...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 28, 2021
- 1 min
Coyote Night by Adrian C. Louis
Coyote Night Adrian C. Louis A flat tire ten miles east of Pine Ridge just past the Wounded Knee turnoff. I disembark into Siberia...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
Love Song: I and Thou by Alan Dugan
Love Song: I and Thou by Alan Dugan Nothing is plumb, level, or square: the studs are bowed, the joists are shaky by nature, no piece...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 21, 2021
- 1 min
Tala (ode to the Girl-Palm) by Majda Gama
Tala (ode to the Girl-Palm) by Majda Gama published in Nimrod, Spring/Summer 2019, Volume 62, Number 2 Voices of the Middle East and...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 21, 2021
- 2 min
Write Towards the Last Words: Poetry Prompt
Warning: this prompt has a long-ish introduction. Many years ago, I wrote my first ode. Prior to doing so, I went to Neruda and Keats for...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 17, 2021
- 1 min
The Exact Moment I Became a Poet by Paula Meehan
for Kay Foran published in As If By Magic: Selected Poems (WFUP, 2021) was in 1963 when Miss Shannon rapping the duster on the easel’s...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 14, 2021
- 1 min
Blessings: Poetry Prompt
Using Shirley Geok-lin Lim's poem, "Bless this Bagel," as inspiration, write a short poem that is a blessing. A food item is a great...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 14, 2021
- 1 min
Bless this Bagel by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Bless this Bagel by Shirley Geok-lin Lim published in Walking Backwards (West End Press) Bless this bagel this Sunday morning, Stark...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 10, 2021
- 1 min
So Many Swans Could Mean Something by Karen Donovan
published in Exploded Assembly (Sow's Ear 2019 Chapbook Competition winning chapbook) I don't want to talk about what we have lost, I am...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 7, 2021
- 1 min
Create a Distance from Tragedy: Poetry Prompt
Today's poem, "In the ER at 1 AM" by Mary Hanarhan, relates a tragic event in first person. It is a heart-breaking poem, and although we...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 7, 2021
- 1 min
In the ER at 1 AM by Mary Hanarhan
In the ER at 1 AM by Mary Hanarhan published in Sugar House Review, Issue 18 You die next to the man holding a dish towel over his bloody...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 3, 2021
- 1 min
Hunter's Moon by Kelli Russell Agodon
Hunter's Moon Kelli Russell Agodon published in Waxwing Literary Journal The first person you fall in love with will be a deer. You will...
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