Workshop

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Let's take the next 20 minutes this morning to complete the poems and short stories in the packet. Then, please use the rest of class to workshop. Remember to comment IN the Google doc of your fellow workshop participants--give them feedback. You may refer to the workshop handout I gave you to help. When you have completed your feedback to your peers, use the rest of the workshop time to develop your own work and write. 

 Here are some recent writing prompts:

 PROMPT: Write an "anti-poem"--break poetic convention. See the Nicanor Parra post/writing for details.

 PROMPT: Mistral combines the themes of LOVE and DEATH in many of her poems. Write an elegy or use these themes in your own writing.

 PROMPT: Mistral and Neruda both use body parts in their poetic lines and connect these body parts with nature or natural imagery. Do the same.

 PROMPT: In The Stone Gods, Captain Handsome and the crew tell stories of planets. Make up your own planet and tell that story.

 PROMPT: Write about survival. See The Stone Gods as an example.

 PROMPT: Create a documentary on a Chilean poet, or create a poem film like the one we did for Pablo Neruda's 20 Love Songs and a Song of Despair.

 PROMPT: Set a story in Chile. Currently, there is some unrest there currently. See the link for photos that might inspire a story or script. 

 PROMPT: Research Easter Island and Rapa Nui mythology. Use your research or some of these mythological stories as allusions in your poetry, or rewrite one of these myths for a contemporary audience. Find out more about Rapa Nui mythology here.

 PROMPT: Take a look at a recent discovery in science, archeology, or some other current event and speculate (ask what if...?) about something that intrigues you. Then write that story. Here are some sites to help:
PROMPT: Write a science fiction story. Examine some science fiction tropes, get a couple of characters together and strand them on your fictional planet. Can they survive?
HOMEWORK: Complete The Stone Gods. Work on your portfolio. The portfolio is due Nov. 4.

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