Hello all-

It was great to see everyone today on the Twitter Live reading of poems from Watch Us Rise. Thank you all for watching. I wanted to add the prompts that I sent out today in case you are looking for some writing activities to do this week.

Prompt #1: Advice Poems: Write a poem where you give advice to yourself, or to your future/past self

Prompt #2: Look at the cover of beautify magazines. In your first stanza, create a found poem using only words/phrases from those covers. In your second stanza, write down all the messages you wish would be in magazines for you.

Prompt #3: Look up ads for beautify products. What are they saying? What are they trying to sell you? Now flip the advertisement and write your own ad - what would you want it to be about?

Start with these prompts & feel free to tag me on social media to share poems or snippets with me.

Thanks all,

Ellen