Iowa

So, I'm currently taking a virtual poetry seminar through Iowa's International Writing Program, taught by Margaret Ross. It's pretty fun so far.

I know that sometimes some writers need prompts, just to do the work of sitting down and engaging with words on a daily basis, so here's one I found enjoyable, and it works well for teaching, too, because you can do it as a sort of round robin group poem:

Write one line (if you're really stuck, take it from an old journal or poem), then start the next line or phrase with the last word of that line. Keep stitching like this until the end, or at least until you can takeoff into something more organic.