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Choose two subjects that interest you - the more different and apparently unrelated, the better. You may choose two stories, two processes (making beer, lethal injections), a story and a process, whatever. The important thing is that both subjects be of real interest to you. Now write a poem in which you combine the two subjects, letting each intermingle with and illuminate the other. Ideally, you will have no idea how the two interconnect until - it may seem like magic - they do.
Good luck with this prompt, and please listen next week for another. The poems from the book Shadow Ball: New and Selected Poems, by Charles Harper Webb, ©2009, are aired/posted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. Music credits: 1) “Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) “Filter” - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several South Burlington High School students)Bill Mares - Archive Interview #511 (5/28/18)
April Ossmann - Interview #510 (5/21/18)
Tim Kreider - Interview #509 (5/14/18)
Madeline Miller - Interview #508 B (5/7/18)
Kim MacQueen Interviews Lisa Romeo - Interview #508 A (5/7/18)
Veera Hiranandani - Interview #507 (4/30/18)
Therese Bohman - Interview #506 (4/23/18)
Sally Helgesen - Interview #505 (4/16/18)
Ralph Culver - Interview #504 (4/9/18)
Mary Casanova - Archive Interview #503
Jill M. Allen - Interview #502 (3/26/18)
Yang Huang - Interview #501 (3/19/18)
Michael Andreasen - Interview #500 (!) (3/12/18)
Robin Oliveira - Interview #499 (3/5/18)
Martin Puchner - Interview #498 (2/26/18)
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Kristin Hannah - Interview #496 (2/12/18)
James Lee Burke - Interview #495 (2/5/18)
Brad Warner - Interview #494 (2/5/18)
Rick Smolan - Interview #493 (1/29/18)
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