Husks of corn got her writing

Friday’s poetry prescription is more of a musing. A lovely example of how one creative writing tutor generated the writing flow with one of of his writing participants by using something physical as a writing prompt.

“Once when I was working in a creativity worship in Iowa, an older woman wanted desperately to write poetry about her youth in rural corn country.

I asked her what she used to do that she would like to write about. Among her answers was “husking corn”.

I told her to wait and I dashed out and bought a half dozen ears of corn in a supermarket.

When I returned I had her sit as she used to and encouraged her to visualize the setting. With her eyes closed and sitting as she remembered I had her husk corn.

In less than ten minutes she produced her first poem.

Within an hour she had written nearly a dozen”.

Bob Samples 

http://judithpordon.tripod.com/poetry/how_to_write_quotes.html