The following is a message from Lexington Poetry Month co-founder and upstanding gentleman, Hap Houlihan.

Greetings Poets,

It’s Friday Prompt time! The Severance prompts from last week inspired some solid work—Thanks, Martha Gehringer!

This week’s prompt is sent to us by Rebecca Gayle Howell. Rebecca is currently pursuing a PhD at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, but she calls Lexington home. Her powerful debut collection from earlier this year is Render / An Apocalypse, and she has a beautiful chapbook published by Larkspur Press entitled The Hatchet Buddha. Rebecca’s translation of Amal al-Jubouri’s Hagar Before the Occupation/Hagar After the Occupation was listed by Library Journal as a Best Book of 2011 and was a finalist for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award.

Rebecca’s prompt is Grace. Let’s all see how much grace we can exhibit for the hungry readers of Lexington…

Have a great weekend,
Hap