Writing Prompts – Kathryn Nuernberger

Seeds for Starting a Docupoetic Project

Last week I wrote about the Docupoetic tradition, drawing on lecture notes and reading lists from a graduate seminar I taught last year. I thought folks might be interested in seeing some of the generative writing exercises the students and I did in that course as well.

Docupoetics & the Art of Lyrical Research

Maybe the latest wave of researched poetry has you curious about the docupoetic lineage? I’ll share here a little overview of the evolution of the docupoetics, which I gave as a lecture on the first day of the seminar, followed by a reading list from the course.

Conversations with Plants: An Exercise & Reading List

I developed a habit of talking to the plants in the pasture behind my house to ease this loneliness. My ways of listening in these conversations took the form of observation, research, sustainably harvesting wild foods and medicines, and learning the stories cantankerous hags and witches like me had been whispering about them for as long as people and plants have been friends.

I have been developing a new exercise in writing and living to create connections and a feeling of connectedness on the road. I thought maybe other poets would find it fun to try. Or that folks using Rue as a text in their creative writing classrooms would like to share this exercise with their students…

Exercises in Creative Revision + Some Notes on Running a Revision-Focused Workshop

I recently had a chat with a talented poet working on a first book. This writer was in an ad hoc workshop group and wanted to know what I thought about some advice on voice that had been given. The advice wasn’t given carelessly or cruelly, but it did reveal that the giver of thatContinue reading “Exercises in Creative Revision + Some Notes on Running a Revision-Focused Workshop”