“Write for ten minutes about where you are now: include details, for example, of the smell of toast burning in the toaster or the sounds a garbage truck makes when backing up outside your window or the taste of curdled milk on your tongue or the burst of heat as you opened the dryer door to pull out a towel.”
Devi S. Laskar is a native of Chapel Hill, N.C., and holds an MFA from Columbia University. The Atlas of Reds and Blues—winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and the Crook’s Corner Book Prize—is her first novel. It was selected by The Georgia Center for the Book as a book “All Georgians Should Read” and named by The Washington Post as one of the best books of 2019. A former newspaper reporter, Laskar is now a poet, photographer and novelist.
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Poetry is my first love. Whenever I get stuck writing, I stop and find a poem and read it aloud. This helps me hear the rhythms of the language. It helps me jump start my own work.
Today’s Writing Prompt: Go to poets.org and find a poem (it’s free!) and read it aloud. Then take a line from the poem as your prompt and make it your first or last line. Write for 10 minutes, then title the poem ‘How to Crack an Egg.’
”Devi S. Laskar is a native of Chapel Hill, N.C., and holds an MFA from Columbia University. The Atlas of Reds and Blues—winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and the Crook’s Corner Book Prize—is her first novel. It was selected by The Georgia Center for the Book as a book “All Georgians Should Read” and named by The Washington Post as one of the best books of 2019. A former newspaper reporter, Laskar is now a poet, photographer and novelist.
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