Tag: writing prompt
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writing prompt: predictive text
Back to teaching full time this week. Been exciting and inspiring, while at the same time very real. What I mean is that the more I teach, the more I feel myself be more myself. And it’s not a thing I can summon or call forth. The space held in shared open questioning and conversation […]
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turn, volta, turn
Some quick thoughts and sharings from this week: As many of you know, I’m a board member of CavanKerry Press, and I’m excited about the work done by this literary organization. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ve managed to maintain their staff and publishing schedule, while conducting various community outreach events virtually. They are currently doing […]
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writing prompt: found sonnet
This week’s writing prompt has me sharing something I wrote during my experience teaching in my first winter residency for the Solstice low-residency MFA program at Pine Manor College. Along with teaching a craft course on poetic authority and hybrid forms and participating in a faculty reading, I also had the privilege of leading a […]
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writing prompt: Stafford’s four elements of daily writing practice
For this week’s writing prompt, I’m revisiting my time presenting at and attending the Oregon Poetry Association conference in September. While I have devised mine own daily writing habits over the years, it was at this conference where I learned the practices of one of my go to poets, William Stafford. Stafford’s son, Kim Stafford, […]
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writing prompt: shape tracing
This week I’m introducing a new type of post focused on writing prompts! These will come in part out of my teaching background and will also be informed by work I’m currently exploring. This week’s poem, “have I mattered to my / phone…” in particular involves a visual component that doesn’t travel well to Instagram. […]
The Friday Influence 