Thank you to all those who submitted prompts to our National Poetry Month contest! We’ve chosen three runners-up and one winner, and will be announcing them week by week as we post the ideas that they submitted.
This week, we’re featuring, as one of our runners-up, a prompt derived from an idea that was submitted by LR reader Janet. We were intrigued by Janet’s entry, an exercise which involved plugging elements of one’s memory of a childhood meal into the form of a recipe, and have elaborated upon and expanded that idea slightly to produce this week’s prompt. (The text of Janet’s original exercise can be found here).
Prompt:
Write a poem that recalls the recipe for a meal from childhood or which uses such a recipe to frame your memory of that meal. Be sure to include, besides the actual ingredients that went into that recipe, descriptions of more intangible elements, such as the people, the place and emotions that were present when you ate that meal.
Congratulations to Janet, and thanks again to everyone who entered our contest.
Please check back again next Friday to see a prompt from our next runner-up!