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Sheetghost Poetry

Robert Wood Lynn

What's haunting underneath the poems? Weekly prompts and short essays on poetry

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Poetry Prompt of the Week: Story as Scaffolding

Edward Hopper, City Roofs, oil on canvas, 1932 (The Whitney Museum of American Art)

It is, again, the longest day of the year, which always reminds me of my favorite Sharon Olds poem.

Someone once told me—with more than a hint of derisio...

7 days ago
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Poetry Prompt of the Week: Absurd Instruction

The hardest skill in poetry to teach is voice—that sum of all stylistic decisions: tone, pace, syntax, confidence, diction, authority, etc. that collectively create the gestalt of the poem, the thing that makes you trust it and want to keep...

14 days ago
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Poetry Prompt of the Week: The Dynamic List Poem

Again, the World Cup is upon us (I got lucky in a cheap ticket lottery and will be heading out west this week to catch some of the group matches). Growing up, my favorite part of soccer practice was always the last 10 minutes, a drill we ca...

21 days ago
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Poetry Prompt of the Week: Transitive Metaphor

Earlier this week, a few days before I left MacDowell to return to the world, I stood a minute listening to a sad singing in the woods. I was hoping it was an unfamiliar bird, something new and beautiful, but it turned out to be a tree, alm...

a month ago
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Poetry Prompt of the Week: Birth Poem as Life Poem

from Jacob Lawrence, “Untitled (The Birth),” 1938

It’s been another week cocooned away in the woods here at MacDowell, and I’m already a little nervous about reentering the world, with all its obligations and distractions. I’ll admit I hav...

a month ago
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  • Robert Wood Lynn

    Poet from Virginia. Yale Younger Poets Prize & Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Poems in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Poetry, The Nation etc. I teach poetry at Juilliard, Bennington, Brooklyn Poets & Poets House.

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