Find your way back to school with this poetry prompt that uses second person. The trip might be deeper, more dreamlike if you do.
Donald Hall’s “The Back Chamber”
From the time I was 8 until I was 14, I spent a week each summer at my grandmother’s house in Shreveport. I would sleep in the second bedroom, which was always called “the back room” even though it and my grandmother’s bedroom formed the back of the house. It was the room with a […]
Governments of Tea 4
Tea poems you can drink up. Including Orion, catholic schools, and jazz. Not your ordinary fare.
National Poetry Month: Gary Soto
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