Agape Guru 7/5/20 Agape Guru 7/5/20

Memoir Writing Prompts with Tom Keating, Author of Yesterday's Soldier

Keating’s new book, Yesterday’s Soldier tells of his time in Vietnam as a Conscientious Objector.

Agape Guru 9/26/19 Agape Guru 9/26/19

WORKSHOP FOR BREVITY IN ANCIENT FORMS

Inked up frogs—slimy
fights over forms of love—slip
sound of water

Agape Guru 8/28/19 Agape Guru 8/28/19

War Drabble Writing Prompts

Often the easiest way to make someone else feel something is to place them in a common scenario. A story takes shape in a reader’s mind as much through what is left out as through what is said. Let’s practice brevity.

Agape Guru 4/27/19 Agape Guru 4/27/19

Write a Soldier's Story

Writing prompts on the hero’s journey for The Black Odyssey Boston

Agape Guru 4/10/19 Agape Guru 4/10/19

Back to Basics

Identity inspired mayhem makes up some terrifying media. The last century of the last millenium is full of examples of absurd violence against people based on where they live and how they’ve placed their loyalties. Religious, political, ethnic, sexual identities put us at odds as often as they bring us together. Divided into tribes, it’s easy to forget our common humanity.

Agape Guru 2/22/18 Agape Guru 2/22/18

Jose Diaz Examines Poetic Breaks

It’s not all about breath, beats and cadence. When words combine to make a line sound perfect, altering the way a poem breaks on the page changes both the tone and meaning of a poem. Let’s talk about line breaks and prose poetry.

Agape Guru 9/27/17 Agape Guru 9/27/17

Write About Sickness, a Poetry Prompt from Fred Marchant's Suffolk Workshop

Workshops with Fred always enlighten and enliven my creativity. Every poem I start in his workshops gets me on a roll, and I’ll post the poem that I’ve been revising from his workshop up on r/warriorwriters. The topic at the workshop he led for Warrior Writers last week was sickness