Visit a museum or an art gallery. While looking at the art, transcribe fragments from the written descriptions and/or titles that accompany each work. Create a poem out of the fragments you've transcribed.
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Archive March 2012
Visit a Museum
Posted by Writing Prompter on 3.20.12
The Hopi Foundation's Owl & Panther Program Speaks Peace
A blog from: The Staff of Poets & Writers
Posted by RW Blogger on 4.13.12
Marge Pellegrino, author, teaching artist, and project manager for The Hopi Foundation’s Owl & Panther project, blogs about P&W–supported programs with refugee families.
P&W–supported poet Michael Cirelli, author of Lobster With Ol' Dirty Bastard, Vacations on the Black Star Line, and Everyone Loves The Situation, remembers his debut book launch in 2008.
Charis Books and More: Keeping Doors Open for 38 Years
A blog from: The Staff of Poets & Writers
Posted by RW Blogger on 3.16.12
Elizabeth Anderson is the program director at P&W–supported Charis Books and More and Charis Circle, a unique for-profit independent feminist bookstore and 501(c)(3) social justice literary nonprofit hybrid located in Atlanta, Georgia. She is also a writing coach and fiction writer at work on her first novel, "Paradise Park."
Five Young Literary Lions Contend for 2012 Prize
A blog from: Poets & Writers Magazine
Posted by Prize Reporter on 3.15.12
The New York Public Library has announced the five finalists for its twelfth annual Young Lions Fiction Award, given to an emerging writer for a work published in in the previous year.
Fictionalize the Famous
Posted by Writing Prompter on 3.14.12
Choose an article from a magazine that profiles a person, such as a celebrity, a political figure, or a professional athlete. Using one of the settings in the article and a fictionalized version of the person as the main character, write a story in which it is revealed that the main character's greatest strength is also his or her greatest failing.
The Wanderer
Posted by Writing Prompter on 3.15.12
Travel writer, memoirist, and novelist Mary Morris, who teaches a workshop called The Writer and the Wanderer at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, likes to send her students on field trips to light the creative torch. “I like to get my students out of the house, and a little out of their heads,” says Morris, whose most recent book is the memoir River Queen (Holt, 2007). “Go away. Listen. Eavesdrop. Find something new. Bring back a souvenir. What do you take with you?
Ready, Go!
Posted by Writing Prompter on 3.13.12
Write a lyric poem titled "Ode to the Girl in the Red Shoes." Read the Poetry Foundation's definition of the ode, for more information.
Michael Cirelli Keeps It Real
A blog from: The Staff of Poets & Writers
Posted by RW Blogger on 3.12.12
P&W–supported poet and presenter of literary events Michael Cirelli, executive director of Urban Word NYC and author of Lobster with Ol' Dirty Bastard, Vacations on the Black Star Line, and Everyone Loves The Situation, blogs about Willie Perdomo's teaching style.
Women Writers Dominate Literary NBCC Awards
A blog from: Poets & Writers Magazine
Posted by Prize Reporter on 3.09.12
The winners of this year's National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced last night in New York City.