Writing a photograph in poetry or prose
/Look at a photograph of your family. What memories does it bring back? Focus on one of the memories, trying to recall sounds, smells, and other sensations, as well as what things looked like...
Read MoreLook at a photograph of your family. What memories does it bring back? Focus on one of the memories, trying to recall sounds, smells, and other sensations, as well as what things looked like...
Read MoreWrite the magic of your childhood. What is it that recalls childhood for you? Marge Piercy said that one dab of childhood mud could set a story right....
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A friend of mine, Rosally Roffman told me about the pottery pain pot that a friend had given her. She was asked to some words on a slip of...
Read MoreEmily Dickinson said : “After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs." Sometimes circumstances bend us almost to a breaking point...
So what are the features of a Billy Collins poem? Here’s a list – and see if you can include them all because you can delete the ones that don’t work well when you revise...
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