Writing Prompts: What I Learned From . . .

Poem Prompt #1

POEM PROMPT: Write your own “Things I Learned Last Week" poem. Consider using what you tried, what you wrote, what you said, what you texted, people you thought about, last words to expand the poem.

Poem Prompt #2

SOURCE: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56132/what-i-learned-from-the-incredible-hulk

POEM PROMPT: Write your own“What I Learned from _____.” Fill in the blank with a retro superhero/ine, an illness, a windfall, talking less listening more. 

​Hear Aimee Nezhukumatathil read her poem at poetryfoundation.org

Another Example Poem

SOURCE: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48491/what-i-learned-from-my-mother