Entries by Bethany

Day 12: Marriage Therapy at the Movies

It’s late…but here goes. The prompt was to write a poem referencing 3-5 favorite movies. I must be doing it wrong. Donna Reed I’m sure did not drink wine all afternoon with her girlfriends and gripe about Jimmy Stewart. Remember when we never missed a Woody Allen movie, holding hands and believing an acid quip might […]

Day 11 / 30 Poems in 30 Days

Here’s the prompt for today’s poem from POETRYisEVERYTHING: “A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.” ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko Welcome to Day 11 of the NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) challenge. One third of the challenge and poetry month is behind us now. If you are just getting started I hope you’ll set […]

An Inappropriate Poem

“If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.” -Gail Sher My assignment today is to write an inappropriate poem. Keep it PG, Chris said, and, Don’t tell me you don’t know what I mean. Here’s my attempt. Told to write an inappropriate poem, I begin thinking about sex, and […]

The Ekphrastic Poem

  POETRYisEVERTHING‘s prompt for day 9 is to write an Ekphrastic poem, a poem based on a painting or another art form. As Chris explains, the ekphrastic poem can be a response to a painting, or it can give a painting a voice. To read more, you might check out a handout that I found […]