Our next meeting will be on September 29th at 6pm and we'll be focusing on poetry. Bring in one poem by a published writer that you especially like. Also, bring in a poem that you've written. It can be an older poem, if you don't feel like writing something new. If you'd like to write something this week, here are two different prompts:
- Write your poem with the aim of imitating an aspect of a published poem (hopefully the one you'll bring with you) that you particularly like. You can choose to imitate the structure, diction, rhyme scheme, subject matter, whatever you like. You can do either an indirect take off on the poem or a copy change.
- Write a poem that focuses on some aspect of popular culture. Movies, TV, celebrity culture, video games, magazines, genre or cult media, the Internet... seriously, anything. Here is an example: Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!] by Frank O'Hara. (There's no need to imitate this example, I just wanted to show you one direction this sort of thing could take.)
Some good websites for poetry are:
Poets.org
Plagiarist.com
Poetry 180
If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment here or email either of us!
Also a reminder: if you are interested in seeing Neil Gaiman in Cleveland on October 4th at 2 pm, let either Hanna or myself know a.s.a.p.!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment