Write It!: 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire

Jacobs, Jessica; Brown, Nickole

ISBN 10 : 1632173476 ISBN 13 : 9781632173478

Editeur : Spruce Books, 2020

Synopsis

"Write It! might be one of the friendliest poetry tool kits/notebooks ever."
--Naomi Shihab Nye, Young People's Poet Laureate,

Discover your creative voice and learn to write poetry in this easy-to-use guided journal with 100 poetry prompts--a 2021 Young People's Poet Laureate Pick! 

Thoughtful, stimulating, and fun prompts developed from workshops by award-winning poets will help you craft writing that authentically expresses your inner life. Compose on these beautifully designed pages, and create a body of work that you can enjoy privately or share using decorative display pages perfect for social media.

This lovely guided journal can be both a canvas for exploration and a treasured keepsake showcasing your creative voice. Includes decorative pages and a ribbon with beautiful cloth hardbound cover.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jessica Jacobs is an award-winning poet and the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going, and In Whatever Light Left to Us. Nickole Brown is the author of Sister, Fanny Says, and The Donkey Elegies. She once worked as editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. When not at home in Asheville, North Carolina, Jessica and Nickole are leading poetry workshops around the world.

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Simply put, this book is designed to get you writing,
to help you find your voice or, as the case may be,
your many voices, so that the stories within you
might rise and make a chorus of your multitudes.

The title of this book—Write It!—is from Elizabeth
Bishop’s “One Art”—a poem the poet famously sculpted
through a series of obsessive revisions from a set
of messy notes into a stunning villanelle. In it, she
begins with a list of the things she’s lost, starting
small: keys, an hour here or there, her mother’s
watch. But even when she allows herself to list lost
items as big as a house, a river, or a continent, she
knows she still hasn’t acknowledged the true loss
that forced her to the page. No, it’s only in the
final line of the final stanza that the poet admits
 she can tolerate the loss of all but her beloved and
urges herself to be honest, to be vulnerable, finally,
 to “Write it!”, forcing herself to own the truth she
didn’t yet have the courage to say. To read Bishop’s
poem is to witness a person’s movement toward selfrevelation
through writing, and we hope these prompts
will engage you on a similar journey.
So, what do you need to get started? Well, only a
pen, really. Or maybe a pencil, if you’re the erasing
type. Oh, and it will help if you carve out a space
for yourself in terms of both time and place. Fifteen
minutes here, a half hour there—whatever your life
allows—along with a quiet little corner in which
to write.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Spruce Books
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1632173476
• ISBN 13: 9781632173478
• Reliure: Journal de bord
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible