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    The Way I Begin to End: Prose Poem

    The Way I Begin to End: Prose Poem

    Wednesday Prose Poem: structure reversals
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    J.D. Harms
    Jan 18
    The Sentence You Left Behind

    The Sentence You Left Behind

    Saturday Poetry Prompt: words breaking up
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    J.D. Harms
    Jan 14
    Dreaming Memory

    Dreaming Memory

    Prose poem prompt: Liminal landscapes
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    Melissa Coffey
    Dec 23, 2022
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    Ann Marie Steele
    Feb 1

    Black Gold

    Saturday Poetry Prompt: borrow from me

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    J.D. Harms
    Feb 1

    My Life on the Highways: Prose Poem

    Wednesday Poetry Prompt: the open road

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    4 responses
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    Joe Luca
    Jan 30

    Poems, prompts, wishes, and why not

    I Do Not Want to Rule the World

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    2 responses
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    Era Garg
    Jan 30

    Love’s Ashes

    Prompt response: words breaking up

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    1 response
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    Annine Massaro
    Jan 29

    Blinded

    Falling in to see

    Caught off guard / shoved into hell / no more air for my heart/beating/ repeating /the…

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    3 responses
    Prose: Exploring Form
    Poetry Workshop: Revising Drafts for Depth

    Poetry Workshop: Revising Drafts for Depth

    Three techniques to develop your poems
    Go to the profile of Melissa Coffey
    Melissa Coffey
    Dec 9, 2021
    Poetry as Affliction

    Poetry as Affliction

    I’d like to abandon it (or have it abandon me)
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    J.D. Harms
    Oct 5, 2022
    Encounters with the Prose Poem: An Impressionistic Essay

    Encounters with the Prose Poem: An Impressionistic Essay

    The text-lines are straight — but the meanings are not
    Go to the profile of Melissa Coffey
    Melissa Coffey
    Jan 18, 2022
    On the Enigma of Metaphor

    On the Enigma of Metaphor

    Why it’s central to the creative process
    Go to the profile of Melissa Coffey
    Melissa Coffey
    Sep 12, 2021
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