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At Seventeen: Poetry Prompt
Happy Sunday! I am giving you three choices for your prompt this week. You can choose one or mix and match, depending on how much of a...

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Jan 30, 20221 min read
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Count Down by Robin Morgan
Count Down by Robin Morgan Survival is the final offer that arrives at the eleventh hour just when pain to the tenth power would kill you...

marychristinedelea
Jan 30, 20221 min read
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Wildlife by Heather Treseler
Wildlife by Heather Treseler winner, 2021 WB Yeats Society Contest All strut and gibbering, wattles and caruncles, tom turkeys parade at...

marychristinedelea
Jan 26, 20221 min read
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Summary Sonnet: Poetry Prompt
Use today's poem, "The Fall of the House of Usher," by Reed Whittemore, as your inspiration for this week's prompt. This prompt has two...

marychristinedelea
Jan 23, 20222 min read
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The Fall of the House of Usher by Reed Whittemore
published in A Geography of Poets, Edited by Edward Field The Fall of the House of Usher by Reed Whittemore It was a big boxy wreck of a...

marychristinedelea
Jan 23, 20221 min read
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Winter In Another Country by Ai
published in Poetry, March 1980 I was born in Cologne. That word again: Cologne. I let my mouth fill with it as my mother did when the...

marychristinedelea
Jan 20, 20221 min read
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Stormy Weather: Poetry Prompt
Ugh. I have a cold (which is why I am posting this prompt so late in the late). But having a cold led to my thinking of cold and hot,...

marychristinedelea
Jan 16, 20221 min read
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Temptation of the Composer by Airea D. Matthews
published in Simulacra, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Temptation of the Composer by Airea D. Matthews Oh Shepherd, our...

marychristinedelea
Jan 16, 20221 min read
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Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp by Cindy Williams Gutiérrez
Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp by Cindy Williams Gutiérrez from The Small Claim of Bones, 2014 Softly, it always began softly....

marychristinedelea
Jan 12, 20221 min read
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My Baby Just Wrote Me a Letter: Poetry Prompt
No, this prompt does not involve The Box Tops' 1967 song, "The Letter" (but if you can work it in, go for it!). Rather, write a letter to...

marychristinedelea
Jan 9, 20221 min read
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Decency by Emily Jungmin Yoon
published in The Paris Review, Issue 227, Winter 2018 Decency by Emily Jungmin Yoon When a man threw his fist into a wall next to my eye...

marychristinedelea
Jan 9, 20221 min read
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The Sun Never Pointed Out That Metal Piece by Ayesha Asad
published in Kissing Dynamite Poetry, Issue 26, FEB 2021 His beard was stained straw, smoked by desert wind & lipped by sand. His...

marychristinedelea
Jan 5, 20221 min read
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For a Lyrical New Year: Poetry Prompt
This week, let's try to write a pure lyric poem. Put your speaker in a specific moment and then describe the scene. Focus on tangible...

marychristinedelea
Jan 2, 20221 min read
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Breaking Down in the South by Gail White
Breaking Down in the South by Gail White It knocked me over to learn there’s no such thing as a nervous breakdown. My aunts and uncles...

marychristinedelea
Jan 2, 20221 min read
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