POETRY PROMTS

Elizabeth Torres

Choose a public event you’ve lived through, or witnessed. The sort of thing that makes the news. Name it directly in the title of your poem.

Then, write a poem that intentionally doesn’t engage with the event at all, but rather dwells on other, personal (specific!) images from that day/time.

The idea is to create some tension between the public and the private, consider how one impacts the other, to think about what we pay attention to, and what is worthy of notice or remembrance.

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