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Everyday Vignettes: Summer Edition

7/11/2019

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Free Write Prompt

Describe, in provocative detail, things you notice most about a summer morning, a summer afternoon, a summer evening? Write for 10 minutes. Ready? GO!

Poem Prompt

Write a poem using the best descriptions of summer.  Decide to lean more toward summer as a character, or summer as symbolic of human behavior, or summer as an ode to season, or summer in your region.  Write for 15 minutes. 
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Example Poems

  1. The Summer I was Sixteen  by Geraldine Connolly
  2. August Morning  by Albert Garcia
  3. Morningside Heights, July  by William Matthews
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Try This in Your Writing

  • Capture a specific summer memory -weather, smells, food, tie, place, body, air, light, etc.
  • Use the Sumer season only as the backdrop to a larger story in the poem.
  • Treat the season as a character.
  • Think about the archetypal symbolism of the summer season.

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