First Mentor Poem
Writing Prompts #1
Second Mentor Poem
Writing Prompts #2
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 Image: Markus Winkler IntroductionThis week we consider the work of the poet, as influenced by the two mentor poems. Diane Ackerman suggests the work of the poet is "to name what is holy," and, as in Clemonce Heard's poem, it is to register a response to a current event. In our writing practice, PoBo writers try their turn at each of these challenges. Stay tuned, because the work of the poet is an idea we will revisit again and again. First Mentor Poem
Writing Prompt #1
Second Mentor Poem
Writing Prompts #2
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"Poets Respond"
 Image: Angela Yuriko Smith on Pixabay IntroductionHelen Vendler, American literary critic, writes in her book SILENT LISTENERS, "Although no one else is present in fact, the solitary poet is frequently addressing someone else, someone not in the room. " This week's theme is exploring to whom we are writing. Who are we imagining as we write, if we are indeed conscious of imagining anybody? First Mentor Poem
Writing Prompt #1Directly address your future reader. What will the reader need to know? Is there anything you need to explain? Write whatever you want to say to your imagined future reader(s). Second Mentor PoemMORE FROM VENDLER: “...poets address their poems, in whole or in part, to someone they do not know and cannot set eyes on, their invisible listener. George Herbert speaks to God; Walt Whitman to the reader in futurity; John Ashbery to a painter of the past. What are we to make of this choice of addressee? With many visible listeners presumably available---the beloved, the patron, the child, the friend---why does the poet feel he or she must hold a colloquy with an invisible other?"
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Who Did PoBo Writers Address?The following are examples of our writer's directly addressing someone, or something -- excerpted from their poems.
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It's a colorful life! The first poem below, Matt Donovan's "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More" is a favorite of mine -- so layered -- and wanted to kick off this session with it. Does it look familiar? PoetryBones has read this poem before, but in a closing discussion. You can see it HERE along with other "color-related" poems with which we've worked. TODAY, we revisit the theme, but with a different writing challenge! Off you go, now!
First Mentor Poem
Writing Prompt
Think of a color. Then take a walk! Observe EVERYTHING in that color--or color family.
Take notes or pictures. Write in your head as you walk. Write when you get home. Second Mentor Poem
Remember
Take a look at the other color poem prompts from January 2020 !
Something Extra
I find Philippa Stanton's work engaging for her color-themed photographs. I will post more about her work later and link you to her sites. But for now, wanted to share this Sensory Collecting video with you as you go on your "color" walk. Why not make it a Sensory Collecting walk, as well!
Click on thumbnails below for full image. From Stanton's CONSCIOUS CREATIVITY book.  Photo by 简体中文 Today's theme is RANDOMNESS. After some advice in a poet laureate's letter to pair words we don't usually put next to each other in lines of poetry, we tried a spin on a couple of random word and image generators--and begin to feel it's all less and less random than it seems. That discovery traveled all the the way down to the discussion poem at the end. Just how random is that TSA search at the airport? Enjoy the random challenges in these timed writings! First Mentor Poem (which is really a letter)For National Poetry Month 2015, poets.org presented Dear Poet, a multimedia education project that invited young people in grades five through twelve to write letters in response to poems written and read by some of the award-winning poets who serve on the Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors. This is an excerpt from Ethan's letter to Juan Felipe Herrera:
Herrera wrote back with this advice, excerpted from his longer letter. You can see their full exchange here.
Poetry Prompt #1Using the “Take Three Nouns” random word generator, make connections between random nouns. I propose you just start writing and let the connection happen . . . randomly. (Many thanks to JG Web Publishing for these awesome random generators!) Oh, and also resist the urge to click, click, click the generator. Say YES to whatever pops up, and write! Ready? Click. And write for 10 minutes. Second Mentor Poem
Poetry Prompt #2Using this random image generator, write to the image that pops up! The website offers two approaches:
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