This week, we again worked on showing instead of telling, this time by adapting a classic childhood game — and an excellent
activity for road trips! — into poetry. There’s a long tradition of childhood games in poetry: even Emily Dickinson wrote about hide-and-go-seek! We read Donald Justice’s “Twenty Questions,” and wrote our own poem of twenty questions in response — as many other poets have! Take a look at Maura Stanton’s sonnet, which was published in The Best American Poetry of 2005.
Stay tuned for more examples of the good work that’s going on at W.F. Burns!
