LBI Poet's Studio

Whether you are an accomplished poet or a new one, our monthly workshop will inspire you. To attend this virtual event contact Sue Cummings via email scummings817@comcast.net.

This group meets the 1st Thursday of every month from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. You may also join the program in-person at the LBI Library in the meeting room each month.

Our Prompt for January is to write a poem that uses a word, or phrase from Mary Oliver's poem The World I Live In.  

“The World I Live In”

by Mary Oliver

I have refused to live
locked in the orderly house of
     reasons and proofs.
The world I live in and believe in
is wider than that. And anyway,
     what’s wrong with Maybe?

You wouldn’t believe what once or
twice I have seen. I’ll just
     tell you this:
only if there are angels in your head will you
     ever, possibly, see one.

As  Bonus Challenge use three or more of the following words  selected at random from Mark Doty's book, Dog Years.

dog years,  memoir,  sentimentality, fool,  the smell of rain, names, fable, ordinary happiness, serotonin, second wind, toy, biscuit, limited, agree, mirror, eye-rolling, silly, inevitably, tales, Virginia Woolf, signposts, bronzy, Chelsea, plastic, rubble, display, birthmark, airport, single, pasted, downward, pleasure, acquaintance, seashore, beer, over-sweetened, complexity, fueled, interchangable, charm, rage, mortality, fool, startle, skyscrapers, post office, jackhammering, E.T., quantifiable, embedded, children, language, fever, gestures, swimming hole, observant, Tolstoy, sprint, grassy, betrayed, connection, bed, black and white, wiggle, teller, beam, soaked, five, library, compose, camera, roar, sports, proclaiming, star, threaded, unanchored, bench, Yellowstone Alaska, yowl, T-shirt, gift, torso, faded, sack, restored

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