Monthly Archives: January 2023

Fiction Prompt For Friday July 20, 2018

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Friday July 20, 2018

FICTION PROMPT

Library books carry with them stories beyond their pages. “Each one shares the stories not only written on the pages, but through pen markings, coffee splatters, filled-in checkout cards, or yellowed tape stretching the book’s life out before its demise,” says artist Kerry Mansfield about her collection of old library books in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. Write a short story that revolves around a library book and the readers who have checked the book out over a period of time. What significance does this particular book have to your main character, and is this shared or contrasted with other readers? How are the readers connected and do they end up meeting each other?

Reflection For Monday January 30, 2023

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Monday January 30, 2023

Today my mother & I walked to the SPCA Thrift store. We perused the two floors of the store. I found a cool skirt from Italy, a cool notebook for $5 & a nearly brand new phone for $12. I paid $30 cash for all 3 items. It was a great buy for everything. I can’t wait to wear my new skirt when it gets warmer.

Poetry Prompt For Friday July 20, 2018

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Friday July 20, 2018

POETRY PROMPT

“At the etymological root of both healing and health is the idea of ‘wholeness.’ To heal, then, is to take what has been broken, separated, fragmented, injured, exiled and restore it to wholeness,” writes Jane Hirshfield in her essay “Poetry, Permeability, and Healing” in the Spring-Summer 2018 issue of American Poets. Think of something in your life that has been either physically or figuratively broken, fragmented, or made distant, and write a poem that attempts to restore its wholeness. How might you use the ideas of rejoining parts, searching for new openings, or creating connections for empathy, to write a poem that begins to make what is broken whole?