Poets and Performance by Jacqueline Johnson
Poets and Performance Whether you are doing a performance of your poems or reading them – you the poet want…
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Release the Dam: A Poem is A River by Keisha-Gaye Anderson
It starts with a whisper. An image. A single word. An idea so subtle that if you don’t sit still,…
Matthew Sharpe – Writing Prompt
Matthew Sharpe I recently spent about two years writing a lot of very short stories. I started by…
Ilana Masad – Writing Prompt
“Mash Stories www.mashstories.com, has a good system, where they take three words, and then require the participants of each contest…
Tara L. Masih – Writing Prompt
Many writers are visually inspired. An evocative photo can be a great starting…
Victoria Redel – Writing Prompt 2
Victoria Redel- Writing Prompt 2 Collect overheard bits of conversation/dialogue during the course of the day. Choose three unrelated bits…
Victoria Redel – Writing Prompt
Victoria Redel Take a title for your story that is an abstraction (e.g. Grief, Love, Bliss) and construct a story…
Rick Moody – Writing Prompt
Rick Moody Write a story with no modifiers (I.e., no adjectives, no adverbs). Rick Moody is the…
Lore Segal on “The Writing Habit”
Lore Segal I want to define habit as that which it is easier to keep doing than to not do.…
The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop by Diane Lockward
Reader’s Note by Gail Denham – It took me a powerful long time to go through Lockward’s wonderful book, “The…