Father the world builder

Poetry Prompts #19

We had another lovely workshop on Zoom last night. Some great poems were begun and we learned about why Finnish people have a gazillion words for “bear.”

Here are the prompts we did.

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Read Tracy K. Smith’s “My God, It's Full of Stars”

• Watch the climactic scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey

• Maybe read the poem again

• List ten things we don’t know

• Write a poem about them

Read Kaveh Akbar’s Reza’s Restaurant, Chicago, 1997

• List ten things grown-ups did that baffled you

• Pick one and write a poem about it