The June 22nd prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem about things that happened the year you were born, using “the first line of Sandra McPherson’s ‘1943’ [I was born in the year of __] as a jumping off place.”
Martha Silano
Summer Solstice Poem
The June 21st prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem that includes five of the following words: luminous, bedazzling, sunny, saturated, radiant, incandescent, illustrious, bright.
J.Y.M. Speaks (a poem)
The June 15th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem in which “someone or something in a painting or a sculpture will be the speaker”. The only thing that came to mind that depicted “someone or something” that could be imagined to have a voice was Frank Auerbach’s Head of J.Y.M. II, which is the painting used for the cover art of Japan’s 1983 live LP, Oil On Canvas.
A poem about two places
The May 30th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a couple of ten-line poems—one about a place you loved, and the other about a place you didn’t—and then combine them into a single twenty-line poem. I wrote about Tokyo (specifically, Saturdays in Tokyo), and getaways to Ocean Shores…
A poem that’s not quite abut two different subjects
The May 28th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, involves writing a poem that includes two different subjects “and creates a bridge between them.” I chose the moon and typewriters, then managed to write a poem that isn’t specifically about either…
Poem about a quiet girl wearing a red dress
The May 21st prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to incorporate at least eight of a list of Langston Hughes poem titles into “a poem about something beautiful or something you wish would happen.”
To the girl I saw at the 7-Eleven in North Seattle in April 1975 while taking a break from the March of Dimes Walk-a-thon (a poem)
The May 16th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to address a poem to someone “in your life that you liked, but never really got a chance to know.”
Tokyo interlude (a poem)
The May 13th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to listen to some jazz or classical music, make notes, and “write a poem about something you thought of while you listened.”
Everything’s the same in the end (a poem)
The May 11th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to “pretend you can see into the future.”
My first (a poem)
The May 10th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, involves making a list of “firsts”, then writing a poem about one or more of them.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 