To Villanelle or Not to Villanelle?: Prompt
This week's prompt gives you a few choices, so it can be done by poets, prose writers, and visual artists of any kind! You can write a...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 30, 20231 min read
Villanelle for a Lesbian Mom by Robin Becker
Villanelle for a Lesbian Mom by Robin Becker published in Harvard Magazine by Harvard Press https://harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/fil...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 26, 20231 min read
Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath
Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 23, 20231 min read
Conceited Much?: Writing Prompt
Taking a little break from the villanelle form in my blog this week, to bring you a short poem by Linda Pastan, and from which we will...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 23, 20231 min read
A New Poet by Linda Pastan
A New Poet by Linda Pastan (published in Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins, and here) Finding a new poet is like finding a new...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 19, 20231 min read
For Her Villain by Grace Bauer
For Her Villain by Grace Bauer (published in the anthology, Villanelles, edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali, 2012) The time...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 18, 20232 min read
Translations!
On July 9, I posted a prompt that used sentences in languages other than English as a way to do Sound Translations to start a draft. I...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 16, 20231 min read
Do Not Go: Writing Prompt
Have you read today's poem that I posted on this very blog? If not, get thee to it--Dylan Thomas' "Do not go gentle into that good night"...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 16, 20231 min read
Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 12, 20231 min read
The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit
The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit (Poetry 180, Library of Congress website) A noun's a thing. A verb's the thing it does. An adjective is...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 9, 20232 min read
Maybe the Best Prompt Ever!
I am so happy with this prompt and I think everyone will have fun with it, even if you just turn it into a party game! Back in the 1990s,...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 9, 20231 min read
Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Recuerdo by Edna St.Vincent Millay We were very tired, we were very merry— We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 5, 20232 min read
A Diver for the NYPD Talks to His Girlfriend by Richard Garcia
A Diver for the NYPD Talks to His Girlfriend by Richard Garcia (published in the anthology, Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 2, 20231 min read
Freedom: Writing Prompt
This week's writing prompt is simple; what you do with it can be as complex as you want to make it. Use the word/idea of freedom and go...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 2, 20231 min read
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our...
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