{"id":4689,"date":"2011-11-18T14:26:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=4689"},"modified":"2011-11-18T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:26:35","slug":"friday-prompt-field-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/friday-prompt-field-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Prompt: &#8220;Field Notes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4690\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Urban-and-Rural.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4690  \" title=\"Urban and Rural\" src=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Urban-and-Rural-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Urban-and-Rural-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Urban-and-Rural-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Urban-and-Rural.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of dwellingintheword.wordpress.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was about a year ago that I posted this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/29\/weekly-prompt-american-sentences\/\" target=\"_blank\">prompt<\/a>\u00a0on Allen Ginsberg&#8217;s American Sentences, thanks to former classmate Jessica Tyson; this week&#8217;s Friday Prompt is courtesy of another recent UW MFA graduate, Talia Shalev. \u00a0She&#8217;s derived the exercise from a chapter in the anthology\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearsonhighered.com\/educator\/product\/Contemporary-American-Poetry-Behind-the-Scenes\/9780321095787.page\" target=\"_blank\">Contemporary American Poetry: Behind the Scenes<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Longman, 2002), edited by Ryan Van Cleave, and writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spend an hour in an urban setting that&#8217;s somewhat foreign to you. \u00a0A Laundromat. \u00a0A bus terminal. \u00a0A French pastry shop. \u00a0Record your observations and thoughts. \u00a0Spend another hour in a more rural setting, such as a chicken farm, an apple orchard, or a fishing hole. \u00a0At the very least, find a garden or park! \u00a0Record your observations and thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Write a poem about the urban setting that uses words, ideas, and images exclusively from your rural setting, and then write a poem about the rural setting that uses words, ideas, and images exclusively from your urban setting. \u00a0Does forcing yourself into using unusual vocabulary choices allow you greater freedom? \u00a0Does it make intuitive leaps easier? \u00a0How might this translate into your other poems?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What I find compelling about this prompt is the way it forces the &#8220;translation&#8221; or &#8220;transmutation&#8221; of observational detail from one context to another&#8212;a gesture that can be taken in a number of directions. \u00a0The same process can be used to navigate not only the in-betweens of rural and urban settings, but also the private and the public, the mainstream and the &#8220;minority,&#8221; the high and the low. \u00a0While I think it&#8217;s important that the prompt remain grounded in specific locales (ie. places that can be physically inhabited by the poet), it seems totally possible that a person could make the same linguistic leap from, say, one part of town to another&#8212;and in the process, cast light upon new ways of constructing difference, culture and place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was about a year ago that I posted this\u00a0prompt\u00a0on Allen Ginsberg&#8217;s American Sentences, thanks to former classmate Jessica Tyson; this week&#8217;s Friday Prompt is courtesy of another recent UW MFA graduate, Talia Shalev. \u00a0She&#8217;s derived the exercise from a chapter in the anthology\u00a0Contemporary American Poetry: Behind the Scenes\u00a0(Longman, 2002), edited by Ryan Van Cleave, [&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":[729,730,731,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689"}],"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=4689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4696,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions\/4696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}