In honor of Read Write Poem’s first birthday, for our collaborative prompt this week we’ll go back to the first ever Read Write Poem prompt, which was, in fact, collaborative.
Here’s how Dana started that prompt:
Welcome to the first-ever Read Write Prompt. This week, we’ll focus on American Sentences. Some people don’t like the name, but [...]
“Okay, help me here. All the cool kids are writing these things called American Sentences. If I understand it right, this is a poetic form invented by Allen Ginsberg, and it’s a single seventeen-syllable line. And I don’t get it.”
That’s a quote from Read Write Poem participant Dale Favier, who is discussing American Sentences on [...]
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