A Day Late and a Dollar Short: Poetry Prompt
Yep--I am a day late this week with the week's prompt! (And I am always a dollar short!) But it has a silver lining, as many mistakes do,...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 7, 20221 min
What's Going to Kill You by Jayne Marek
What’s Going to Kill You by Jayne Marek published in Black Horse Review (January 2, 2021) How secretive it can be, swimming the long...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 2, 20221 min
When We Became Trees by Mary Christine Kane
published in Ponder Review, Spring 2017, Volume 1, Issue 1 When We Became Trees by Mary Christine Kane We saw them first on our walk....
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marychristinedelea
Jan 30, 20221 min
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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marychristinedelea
Jan 30, 20221 min
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...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 26, 20221 min
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...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 23, 20222 min
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...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 23, 20221 min
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...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 20, 20221 min
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...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 16, 20221 min
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,...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 16, 20221 min
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...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 12, 20221 min
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....
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marychristinedelea
Jan 9, 20221 min
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...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 9, 20221 min
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...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 5, 20221 min
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...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 2, 20221 min
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...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 2, 20221 min
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...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 30, 20211 min
Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux Early germ warfare. The dead hurled this way look like wheels in...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 26, 20211 min
A Happy Day: Poetry Prompt
Use Kooser's poem as inspiration! Write a 7-line poem that finds satisfaction in the ordinary on a special day. You don't need to use...
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marychristinedelea
Dec 26, 20211 min
A Happy Birthday by Ted Kooser
A Happy Birthday by Ted Kooser This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a...
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