Choose any THREE options below, in any combination:
1. Write a sonnet (poem)
2. Write your own version of Louise Bogan’s “Women” – or “Men” (poem)
3. Respond to “Incident” with an incident of your own (paragraph)
4.1s it possible that the mother in “the mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks loves her children, as she claims? (paragraph) (if not, don’t answer this question – it won’t be interesting!)
5. Thinking about Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays: what would you write about someone who raised you? Is there anything you might later wish that you had said? (paragraph or poem)
6. As an homage to Lucille Clifton who wrote “homage to my hips,” write a poem in praise of a body part (but show good judgment!).
7. After reading “Here, Bullet,” write a poem to an inanimate object that is important to you.
