{"id":2842,"date":"2010-11-12T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2010-11-12T02:31:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T07:31:44","slug":"weekly-prompt-old-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/12\/weekly-prompt-old-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Prompt: Old Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2844\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2844\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/old-shoes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2844 \" title=\"old-shoes\" src=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/old-shoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/old-shoes.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/old-shoes-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of BenettonTalk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve adapted today&#8217;s prompt from Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux&#8217;s handbook\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\/books\/detail.aspx?id=6246\" target=\"_blank\">The Poet&#8217;s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry<\/a><\/em>, which I use in my introductory poetry class to teach important craft concepts such as image, metaphor, and description. \u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s a fairly simple exercise&#8211;more of a starting point, really, from which to begin exploring deeper notions of presence, absence, and the manner in which memory &#8220;ghosts&#8221; poetic vision. \u00a0Feel free to respond to the prompt as is, or elaborate upon\/disregard its restrictions as you see fit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* \u00a0* \u00a0*<\/p>\n<p><strong>Think of a pair of old shoes. \u00a0Describe them in a way that will make the reader think of death, but do not refer to death explicitly in the poem. \u00a0If you wish, you may think of a specific pair of shoes that belongs to a specific person, but do not mention the person by name or indicate your relationship with them.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve adapted today&#8217;s prompt from Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux&#8217;s handbook\u00a0The Poet&#8217;s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, which I use in my introductory poetry class to teach important craft concepts such as image, metaphor, and description. \u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s a fairly simple exercise&#8211;more of a starting point, really, from which to begin exploring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[1048,454,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}