Ready for the next level?
The editors of Ragged Sky Press are having a workshop on March 30th that might suit your needs.
For more information check out their website:
http://www.raggedsky.com/news
The workshop happens in Clinton, New Jersey.
Month: November 2013
Submit to Apiary
This phenomenal journal is fast becoming a really big thing in the Philadelphia area and beyond. Includes work by young writers (high school age and younger), as well as by established writers.
Vertical Free Write Fold Prompt (by Meg Pokrass)
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v5n2/freewrite.html It begins: Write fast. This Vertical Free Write Fold Prompt was written by Meg Pokrass and published in Press 1 a few years back. Meg writes about telling a story, but this can be applied quite easily to drafting a poem.
Writing Prompt: Thanksgiving Rituals
We thought you might use this prompt over the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. The prompt is based on an idea suggested by Don Riggs.
Take some field-notes on your holiday experiences. Describe in detail your Thanksgiving day rituals. Write from the perspective of a specific type of scholar. For instance, you might use the voice of an anthropologist. As preparation, read one or both of the following:
“‘We Gather Together’: Consumption Rituals of Thanksgiving Day” by Melanie Wallendorf and Eric J. Arnould, from The Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 18, No. 1 (June 1991).
For a view from 1952, “Thanksgiving Is Worldwide” by Horace Loftin, from The Science News-Letter, Vol. 62, No. 21 (Nov. 22, 1952).
You can find the Loftin here: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3931471?uid=3739808&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21102905793321
As an alternative style, write a flash fiction piece based on your field-notes.
Naturally, you might substitute other occasions or holidays for Thanksgiving.
Thanks, Don!
Thank you Peter Krok and Manayunk Roxborough Art Center
Thanks to Peter Krok for hosting an event featuring Poems for the Writing contributors at Manayunk Roxborough Art Center on Nov. 3. It was a wonderful afternoon of poetry and talk. Thanks to everyone who read (including Don Riggs, not pictured in photo). We hope for this to be the first of several group readings or workshop events featuring contributors.
