25. June, 2020

Prompt Options (pick one, or follow your bliss):

Option 1: “Overwhelmed” For sure, this is a feeling best to avoid.

Option 2: “Anything goes.”

Option 3 (the Big One): Revision + Siri:

• Revision, from Latin, revisere, to visit or look at again.
• Siri: how often do you ask Siri (or google as “intelligent assistant”) a question and what answers does she/he give? How can she/he be a help or hindrance? Consider how you use or don’t use an “intelligent assistant” to write the poem.

Revision options:

1. Take out a piece of work from six months ago. Look for any vagueness that could be turned into a “real” sensory image you can see, hear, taste, smell, crunch, spit out, etc.
2. Write the opposite of your poem. Even if you are saying what you don’t want to say, you will breathe faster which will offer you something to think about.
3. Cut up your poem line by line. Put all the lines in a bowl. Pull out the lines one at a time with an hour in between. Do they stand by themselves? Do they want you to write other things? Do they make you want to look up/google something new?
4. “Blind date”. pick out all adjective-noun combinations in your poem and list them. Pair them up differently. If you do not have many, make a list of nouns and adjectives. Organize a search for nouns (however you want: by theme, subject, vocabulary used in a certain field, etc.) or adjectives. (color, texture, emotional qualities, etc.)