Write a poem about your father as a boy or your mother as a girl. I use this prompt with my students because even those with bad relationships with their family will be forced to see them in a new light. John Keats called it Negative Capability: when a poet enters into the experience and existence of some thing/body of another.
This poetry writing prompt submitted by Laurel Ann Bogen.
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