The following is a message from Lexington Poetry Month co-founder and overall nice guy, Hap Houlihan.
Hello Gang,
As we wind into the final days of LexPoMo, I want to thank everyone for participating. It’s been a great experience for me, and I hope for you as well. I hope to see each of you at Morris Book Shop for Frank X Walker’s reading at 4:00 and that you’ll stay to share your own work at the LexPoMo Finale Reading at 5:00.
Tomorrow’s prompt comes from Transylvania professor, Yale Younger Poet, and Pulitzer Prize finalist Maurice Manning. Maurice’s most recent collection, The Gone and the Going Away, is quickly becoming one of my favorite books to dip into.
Maurice doesn’t always play by the rules: when I asked him for a one-word prompt, this was his reply:
A few weeks ago at Transy I asked my students to do a writing assignment I called 7 X 7. I made a grid of seven by seven and asked students to fill in each square with “something” so that the completed grid made sense. Some students put a word in each square, others drew a little picture or symbol. I had originally thought they could place a syllable in each square so that the completed grid would have 49 syllables–7 lines and 7 syllables per line. I like making up these little puzzles and have found my students enjoy the exercise as well and in fact come up with finished poems they admire.
So, please feel free to adapt this little exercise however you see fit. Otherwise, you could simply send the one-word prompt, Sevens.
I hope that suits! I expect the LexPoMo Writing Challenge will be a big success.
Soooo, now you have a challenging prompt from one of America’s leading poets. Will you answer the call, or are you just a great big chicken? OK, that’s not fair, but I do hope you’ll step up and create a 7X7 masterpiece.
Have a wonderful weekend and I hope to see you on Sunday!
Cheers,
Hap
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