http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v5n2/fuhrman.html
Shared this poem in class recently–had terrific response.
Talked about writing in response to art.
Month: September 2013
Submit to Hanging Loose
I pretty much love all things Hanging Loose:
http://www.hangingloosepress.com/submissions.html
They always reply personably and in each issue features a section of writings by writers of high school age.
Photo-prompt (Sept. 20)
For a collaborative writing, ask participants to write 5 or 10 questions concerning the picture. Exchange the questions. Answer someone else’s questions.
Submit to Poor Yorick
Opportunity to submit to new journal, Poor Yorick: A Journal of Rediscovered Objects.
https://pooryorick.submittable.com/submit
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photo-essay, other
“Susan” (by Rina Terry)
Susan
Blonde as summer on the Cape,
A Vineyard wanna-be. Enough
money to dress well, eat well;
just enough panache to know
it isn’t enough to meet the guy
who owns a yacht, pays a tailor
to stitch his shirts and jackets.
She sails well, knows fore
from aft but say futtock
and she is offended. Awash
much of the time. Vacation
the fulcrum of every conversation,
every shopkeeper sees her
coming. Her Visa and MasterCard
their most intimate friends.
This poem appears in Poems for the Writing, in the “SPIRIT OF NAMES” chapter. Used by permission of Rina Terry.
“My Side of the Story: A Fibonacci Poem” (by Jesi Kim)
My Side of the Story: A Fibonacci Poem
by Jesi Kim
That point in time
You knew there was a line
You should not have crossed that line
You should have seen things from my angle
But no, you stuck your triangular nose into my business
A place that was as guarded as the Pentagon, and now you know
You should have followed the instructions on the red octagon, but instead you told
And now everyone knows and looks at me like I’m a tridecagon, cursed with thirteen sides.
(Used by permission of Jesi Kim)
Photo-prompt (End of Summer)
First day of class? Ask students to write a series of questions that could be applied to this (or other) photograph. (What happens right after this moment? What is someone in particular doing/thinking? And so on….) Pass around the questions. Write a poem based on these. This could work as a fairly brief in-class writing […]
Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets 