http://writingprompts.org Poetry Writing Prompts Generated by the Poetry Writing Machine Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:32:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Phoebe--a literature and art magazine from the MFA program at George Mason University in Virginia--is seeking nonfiction submissions for the first-ever nonfiction contest (with a monetary prize). In addition,  Phoebe seeks short nonfiction submissions for publication on the journal's new website. Phoebe is also hosting monied contests ... http://writingprompts.org/?p=776 Poetry Instigator got the chance to interview Joe Hall,  author of Pigafetta Is My Wife and a GMU MFA alum. Joe is going to read during FFTB on Sept 23rd at 4:30pm. Make sure you don't miss the reading! SM: Pigafetta is My Wife is an impressive debut and an ... http://writingprompts.org/?p=769 "The range of Charles Simic's imagination is evident in his stunning and unusual imagery. He handles language with the skill of a master craftsman, yet his poems are easily accessible, often meditative and surprising. He has given us a rich body of highly organized poetry with shades of darkness and ... http://writingprompts.org/?p=753 Death and the Powers: A Robot Pageant was written for an opera with music by Tod Machover, libretto by Robert Pinsky, story by Robert Pinksy and Randy Weiner, premiering at the Opera de Monte-Carlo on September 24, 2010. Poetry/July-August 2010 I’m interested in how the arts involve, and in some sense are, ... http://writingprompts.org/?p=747 The Wrong End of the Rainbow Charles Wright It must have been Ischia, Forio d’Ischia. Or Rome. The Pensione Margutta. Or Naples Somewhere, on some dark side street in 1959 With What’s-Her-Name, dear golden-haired What’s-Her-Name. Or Yes-Of-Course In Florence, in back of S. Maria Novella, And later wherever the Carabinieri let us lurk. Milano, with That’s-The-One, two streets from ... http://writingprompts.org/?p=721 OCTAVIO PAZ Between Going and Staying Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency. The circular afternoon is now a bay where the world in stillness rocks. All is visible and all elusive, all is near and can't be touched. Paper, book, pencil, glass, rest in the shade of their names. Time throbbing in my ... http://writingprompts.org/?p=696 Ernesto Cardenal Prayer for Marilyn Monroe Lord accept this girl called Marilyn Monroe throughout the world though that was not her name (but you know her real name, that of the orphan raped at nine the shopgirl who tried to kill herself when aged sixteen) who now goes into your presence without make-up without her Press Agent without her ... http://writingprompts.org/?p=691 Pablo Neruda Ode to Salt This salt in the saltcellar I once saw in the salt mines. I know you won't believe me, but it sings, salt sings, the skin of the salt mines sings with a mouth smothered by the earth. I shivered in those solitudes when I heard the voice of the salt in the desert. Near Antofagasta the nitrous pampa resounds: a broken voice, a mournful song. In its caves the salt moans, ... http://writingprompts.org/?p=687 Our friend, and recent GMU MFA graduate, Ranjani Murali is sharing her prompts after Latin American poets this week. Check poetry instigator EVERYDAY Monday through Thursday for interesting bios, poems and, of course, prompts! Grabriela Mistral Decalogue of the Artist I. You shall love beauty, which is the shadow of God over the ... http://writingprompts.org/?p=683 Silliman's post about Chris McCreary as a New Precisionist got me thinking about Lorine Niedecker, one of my favourite poets. Her precision with using language extends to her surreal mode of writing (as opposed to a mere Objectivist label). The sound progression of her condensed forms ... http://writingprompts.org/?p=668