Saturday, April 30, 2022

Saturday, April 23, 2022

Prompt for a poem (4-23-22)

 1945

Big white victrola with a winding crank

wonderful Kindergarten room that was so special (why?)

Milk and graham crackers for a snack

Saltines if you had been naughty.

1945




Friday, April 15, 2022

PROMPT 4-15-22

 DGI instructor, Georgia Stitt:


Here’s a prompt that I had to tackle in graduate school that I haven’t stopped thinking about since:
 
Write about the first moment in your life when you became aware of politics.
 
When I thought about it, my first impulse was to try to recall which presidential election was the earliest I remember caring about, but what I actually wrote about was a student council election in high school. I ran for some office and my opponent was the captain of the football team. I made a speech with all of my big thoughts and ambitions about what I would do if I got elected, and then he stood up after me and said, “GO TEAM!!”  He won.

 
Maybe you’re writing a scene or a song, or maybe this is the first step towards a whole play.