P O E T R Y B O N E S
  • Writing Practice Blog
  • About
  • ART-chives
  • Contact

...the boost your writing practice needs

PoetryBones blog offers generative writing sessions to boost your writing practice in poetry, creative nonfiction, memoir, even personal development. See  ABOUT for more information on this writing practice.  CONTACT PoetryBones to inquire about joining a live writing session via Zoom; new cohort groups are forming.  ​ 

Writing Prompts: What Work Is

8/8/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
A stunning tour of how wisdom is gained through work and words. Click on image to see video.

Free Write Prompt

Tell me how you learned what WORK is.  Write for 10 minutes.  Ready?  Go!

Be sure to view Mining Poems or Odes, featuring former shipyard welder who learns his thinking laboratory was always behind the welder's mask. 

Poem Prompt

Where is the most energy in your free write?  Write a poem exploring the ideas you’ve grown up with about work. How did the adults around you show you what work is? Consider how you have carried any part of these lessons into your own life – or into your creative work/ life. 
Adapted from Kim Moore's prompt for the Poetry School.

Example Poems

  • What Work Is by Philip Levine
  • The Expert by Arielle Greenberg

Something Extra

In the video, Mining Poems or Odes :
  • Characterize the relationship between Archie and Robert.  How is it similar or different from the men in "What Work Is" by Philip Levine?
  • What is poetry to Robert Fullerton?  What is it to you?
  • How is writing, work?
  • Which quotes | scenes from the video resonate with you most?
  • Which poems have you connected with this past month? 
Picture
Picture
Click image to see the video.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Picture
    Christine curates the POETRY BONES blog and hosts the weekly live writing practice. Contact her with inquiries.

    Archives

    March 2022
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019

    RSS Feed

    #whyiwrite

    National Day of Writing is October 20, 2021. PoetryBones members post their reasons for writing.
    Why do you write?
    Make your own social media badge here.
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
copyright 2019 c.stiel all rights reserved. i earnestly try to attribute images, poems, and video to their creators.
​to correct an attribution or to have a work removed, please CONTACT .
  • Writing Practice Blog
  • About
  • ART-chives
  • Contact