{"product_id":"once-upon-a-time-in-the-twenty-first-century-unexpected-exercises-in-creative-writing-paperback-softback-9780817359423","title":"Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century; Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817359423","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOnce Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eUnexpected Exercises in Creative Writing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobin Behn (Edited by), Robin Behn (Introduction by), Kristin Aardsma (Contributions by), Rachel Adams (Contributions by), Jessica Leigh Bailey (Contributions by), Amanda Katie Berger (Contributions by), Holly Burdorff (Contributions by), Ashley Chambers (Contributions by), Tasha Coryell (Contributions by), Alex Czaja (Contributions by), Jesse DeLong (Contributions by), Zachary Doss (Contributions by), Chris Emslie (Contributions by), Romy Feder (Contributions by), Pia Simone Garber (Contributions by), Freya Gibbon (Contributions by), Molly Goldman (Contributions by), Krystin Gollihue (Contributions by), Ashley B. Gorham (Contributions by), Chapin Gray (Contributions by), Jenny Gropp (Contributions by), Annie Hartnett (Contributions by), Stephen Hess (Contributions by), Greg Houser (Contributions by), Jess E. Jelsma (Contributions by), Matt Jones (Contributions by), Kirsten Jorgenson (Contributions by), Sarah Kelly (Contributions by), Laura Kochman (Contributions by), Kenneth Kruse (Contributions by), Breanne LeJeune (Contributions by), Christopher O. McCarter (Contributions by), Meredith Lynn Noseworthy (Contributions by), Brian Oliu (Contributions by), Megan Paonessa (Contributions by), Luke Percy (Contributions by), Kirk Pinho (Contributions by), Stephen M. Reaugh (Contributions by), Sally Rodgers (Contributions by), Curtis Rutherford (Contributions by), Elizabeth Seymour (Contributions by), Jill Smith (Contributions by), Maggie Nye Smith (Contributions by), Emma Sovich (Contributions by), Bethany Startin (Contributions by), Lisa Tallin (Contributions by), Danilo Thomas (Contributions by), Stephen Thomas (Contributions by), Jessica Trull (Contributions by), Brandi Wells (Contributions by), Leia Penina Wilson (Contributions by), Theodora Ziolkowski (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817359423\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 10 black \u0026amp; white figures\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFun and innovative exercises and prompts for creative writing students.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOnce Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century: Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing \u003c\/i\u003eis a unique creative writing text that will appeal to a wide range of readers and writers—from grade nine through college and beyond. Successful creative writers from numerous genres constructed these exercises, including poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction to one-act plays, song lyrics, genre fiction, travel guides, comics and beyond. The exercises use a broad range of creative approaches, aesthetics, and voices, all with an emphasis on demystifying the writing process and having fun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Editor Robin Behn has divided the book into three writing sections: Genres and Forms, Sources and Methods, and Style and Subject. In each section, Behn offers a brief introduction which explains how to get started and specific ways to develop one’s writing. Each introduction is followed by extensive exercises that draw on literature from classic to contemporary, as well as other art forms and  popular culture. Examples range from Flannery O’Connor and Langston Hughes to Allen Ginsberg and Gertrude Stein, from Jamaica Kincaid and James Joyce to Arlo Guthrie and Harryette Mullen. Integrated within the exercises are apt examples of student writings that have emerged from actual use of the exercises in both the classroom and in writing groups. The book concludes with general advice and direction on how to get published.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Based on years of hands-on experiences in the teaching of creative writing in high schools, colleges, and after-school writing clubs, this volume of exercises offers inestimable value to students and teachers in the traditional classroom, as well as a growing number of homeschoolers, those who are part of a writing club or group, and independent writers and learners of all ages.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 1. Genres and Forms Galore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. I'\u003cbr\u003ell Put a Spell on You by Pia Simone Garber, A. B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe art of spell writing, using repetition, and chanting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Bake a Cake in an Earthquake: How-To Guides and Process Descriptions by Pia Simone Garber, A. B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLet a story emerge from your instructions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Guidebooks Galore! Chart Uncharted Places by Pia Simone Garber, A. B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreate a guide to your room, cell phone, refrigerator, and more.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Postcard Stories by Zachary Doss, Meredith Noseworthy, and Bethany Startin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo characters have an exotic exchange through postcards.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Creative Nonfiction by Kenny Kruse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwenty little memoir projects, plus a squirrel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Tropes Unlimited: Genre Fiction by Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplore the habits of genre fiction (fantasy, horror, sci-fi, mystery, etc.) and put them to use.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. Where Frankenstein Meets Frodo, Part One: Creating a Character for Genre Fiction by Creating Their Facebook Page by Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLike Frankenstein'\u003cbr\u003es creator, build a character bit by bit until it'\u003cbr\u003es ready to come to life in your own genre fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Where Frankenstein Meets Frodo, Part Two: Our Hero'\u003cbr\u003es Hundred-Story Hotel and Other Settings for Your Genre Fiction Character by Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGive your main character a room (or rooms) of their own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. What'\u003cbr\u003es Your Alibi? by Jessie Bailey, Jesse Delong, A. B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow will your character explain their way out of this one?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10. Interviews: For Groups Large and Small by Jenny Gropp and Stephen Hess\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“\u003cbr\u003eI feel that I am as necessary as my face”\u003cbr\u003e: conduct an absurdist interview.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11. Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century: Retelling Fairy Tales by Pia Simone Garber\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy was Little Red Riding Hood so readily tricked by the Big Bad Wolf and what would you have done in her place?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12. “\u003cbr\u003eIs He for Real?”\u003cbr\u003e: Character-Based Flash Fiction, Part One: Defining a Character through Action and Dialogue by Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConjure up a living, breathing character in as few words as possible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13. “\u003cbr\u003eIs He for Real?”\u003cbr\u003e: Character-Based Flash Fiction, Part Two: Defining a Character through an Unexpected Setting by Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“\u003cbr\u003eThe mermaid sitting in my tree was drenched \u003cbr\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14. Collaboration with Fly: Learning from Lydia Davis by Stephen Hess\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBe inspired by this flash fiction master'\u003cbr\u003es work to write your own flash fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15. The Relationship between Truth and Fiction by Ashley Chambers, Annie Hartnett, and Christopher McCarter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow can “\u003cbr\u003etruth”\u003cbr\u003e inspire a writer of fiction?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 16. Little Novels by Jessie Bailey and Pia Simone Garber\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondense classic novels and movies into tiny pieces.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 17. It Is By Chance That We Meet: Writing A One-Act Play Through Collaboration by Alex Czaja, Romy Feder, Stephen Thomas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHere, you and three others will write a one-act play.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 18. Quick Found-Language Sonnets by Molly Goldman, Kenny Kruse, and Sally Rodgers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecycle language into fourteen-line poems.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 19. Social Network Haiku by Chapin Gray and Kirk Pinho\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUpdate the haiku form by writing away messages and Facebook haiku.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 20. Rhymes Real Cool: Studies in Rap Lyrics by Christopher McCarter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTap some rhymes to use in rap.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 21. Oral Poetry: The Physical Landscape of Your Poetic Voice by Curtis Rutherford\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTones, tempos, and timbres—\u003cbr\u003eshape your poem with your voice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 22. Collaborative Ghazal by Chapin Gray and Kirk Pinho\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplore this mesmerizing Arabic form and write one with a group or on your own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 23. Collaborative Abecedarian (For up to Twenty-Six Writers) by Sally Rodgers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFall in love with the alphabet all over again and use it to organize and inspire a poem.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 24. The Triolet by Pia Simone Garber\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA French poetic form full of rhymes and repetition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 25. Oh, Ode! by Leia Wilson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSwoon! Celebrate! Write an ode and then try an Exquisite Corpse ode as a group.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 26. Sestinas: Six Words, Obsessed! by Chapin Gray, Jenny Gropp, and Kirk Pinho\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn the basic sestina form, “\u003cbr\u003echeat”\u003cbr\u003e your way to an abridged sestina, write a giant sestina, and take the Ode-Sestina Challenge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 27. Nonce, Not Nonsense: Poetry Meets the Future by Jenny Gropp and Emma Sovich\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWork with the “\u003cbr\u003eCentury”\u003cbr\u003e and the “\u003cbr\u003ePortion,”\u003cbr\u003e and then create your own unique poetry form.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 28. Poetry from Math: The Fib and Beyond by Jenny Gropp and Emma Sovich\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn a poetic form based on the Fibonacci sequence, and then head further into the realm of poetry and equations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 29. Pillow Book Lists: Observing Experience for Creative Nonfiction by Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGet started with autobiographical writing by making expressive lists and snatching up the details right by your side.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 30. A Travel Guide of the Self by Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTake yourself on a tour of you through travel writing and second-person point of view.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 31. Expert Experience: The Art of the Unlikely, Opinionated Review by Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreative nonfiction meets the review when you write your own brief, detailed—\u003cbr\u003eand unexpected—\u003cbr\u003ereview of something you know a lot about.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 2. Ye Olde Language Lets Loose\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 32. TNT Prose: Explodable, Expandable Text by Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse your own words as dynamite to blow out the words of an existing text, revealing a new piece of writing when the dust clears.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 33. Take It Away: Erasure by Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eErase your way to a new piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 34. Ye Olde Language Made New: “\u003cbr\u003eFalse”\u003cbr\u003e Translation by Jenny Gropp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTake a text from another language and “\u003cbr\u003etranslate”\u003cbr\u003e it according to several zany methods.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 35. Sounds into Words, Words into Sounds by Molly Goldman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTurn a sound jumble into a poem.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 36. Starting from a Song, Part One: Remixing a Song in Writing by Tasha Coryell and Steve Reaugh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBe a one-hit wonder!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 37. Starting from a Song, Part Two: Under the (Musical) Influence by Tasha Coryell and Steve Reaugh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLet music put you in a writing mood.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 38. Balderdash for Writers: New Stories from an Old Box by Jesse Delong and Megan Paonessa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreate stories by playing a few rounds of this classic word game.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 39. Disaster City: A Facebook-y Adventure by Rachel Adams, Jessie Bailey, and Kirsten Jorgenson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMap out a city and fill it with characters and plot twists in this collaborative fiction activity that uses moves that you might recognize from Facebook.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 40. Consequences: A Parlor Game of Surprise Narratives by Kit Emslie and Sarah Kelly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst played by the Victorians, Consequences is a parlor game similar to the famous Surrealist exercise “\u003cbr\u003eexquisite corpse.”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 41. Constraints, Odd Characters, and Secret Postcards: A Fresh Approach to Character and Context by Kirsten Jorgenson, Betsy Seymour, and Danilo Thomas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreate questions that generate eccentric characters and then write their secrets down on postcards in this group activity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 42. Broken Picture Telephone: Modernist Poets Meet the Grade-School Game of Telephone by Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplore the tie between thought and image by making a miniature deck of phrase and image cards, and then use the cards like a modernist poet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 43. Magazine Shuffle: From Image to Character, Narrative, and Third-Person-Limited Point of View by Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCombine simple images from magazines to create characters and then narrate their stories from the third-person-limited point of view.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 44. Improv at the Zombie Diner: Platform and Dialogue by Holly Burdorff, Luke Percy, and Maggie Smith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn this exercise, you'\u003cbr\u003ere going to be put in a dangerous situation, and you'\u003cbr\u003ere going to have to act fast.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 45. Comicpalooza: The Art of the Panel by Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSee how comic books use narrative, then build your own characters, images, and a story to make a new comic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 46. Fast Talkers and Faster Writers: Speed Transcription by Chapin Gray, Brian Oliu, and Kirk Pinho\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePractice writing while someone reads a text as fast as possible, picking up what you can and freeing up your associative writer'\u003cbr\u003es imagination along the way.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 47. Obsessions: Seven Way by Kristin Aardsma and Breanne LeJuene\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChocolate truffles, the color purple, America \u003cbr\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e. obsess on your obsession!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 48. Grand Theft Writing: Swiped Beginnings by Chapin Gray, Brian Oliu, and Kirk Pinho\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse the beginning of another text to get your momentum going.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 49. Crazy Headlines and Hyperlink Chasing: Finding and Using a Bizarre Persona by Chapin Gray, Brian Oliu, and Kirk Pinho\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse hyperlinks to uncover a subject for your new piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 50. Genetically-Modified Franken-Poems by Chapin Gray and Breanne LeJuene\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCut up magazines and newspapers to create new poems, both individually and in groups.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 51. The Exploding Poem: How to Keep on Writing by Chapin Gray and Breanne LeJuene\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePull an image or object from a poem, write a new poem based on it, and then stuff it back in.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 52. Nice Hat, Thanks: Word-by-Word Poems by Kristin Aardsma, Breanne LeJuene, and Brian Oliu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWith a partner, create improvisational writing one word at a time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 53. Translation Mutation: Using Online Plot Generators and Translators by Kristin Aardsma, Breanne LeJuene, and Brian Oliu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBounce a text through several languages using an online translator and then work with the unrecognizable results.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 54. Mad Lib Translations of Marquez by Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eZany translations that go beyond Babelfish.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 55. Pictures and Words by Greg Houser and Emma Sovich\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrite about—\u003cbr\u003eand beyond—\u003cbr\u003ethe painting and its frame.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 56. “\u003cbr\u003eThe Horse in Motion”\u003cbr\u003e: Poems in Response to Photographs and Paintings of Motion by Jenny Gropp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn about the history of capturing the body in motion in the visual arts and then extend the practice into your own poetry and prose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 57. Book Flip!: Using Found Phrases by Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrab a book or magazine and flip your way to a new piece of writing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 58. New Takes on the News: Obituaries, Classifieds, and Dear Abby by Greg Houser, Jill Smith, and Jessica Trull\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrite hilarious news items.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 59. Now with Twenty Billion Readers: Writing a Craigslist “\u003cbr\u003eMissed Connection”\u003cbr\u003e by Greg Houser, Jill Smith, and Jessica Trull\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat would you like to say to that stranger?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 60. From These Old Sayings to This Fresh Story: Revamping ClichÉ\u003cbr\u003e Phrases and Plots by Jesse Delong, Lisa Tallin, and Danilo Thomas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTake clichÉ\u003cbr\u003es like “\u003cbr\u003ehead over heels”\u003cbr\u003e and well-known similes like “\u003cbr\u003ehard as a rock”\u003cbr\u003e and turn them into fresh ideas and complex plots.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 3. Slews of Styles and Subjects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 61. Realism: Tips from Tom Wolfe and Flannery O'\u003cbr\u003eConnor by Krystin Gollihue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse an angle to depict settings and characters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 62. World Building: Nonrealistic Characters and a Six-Sentence Story by Jess E. Jelsma and Matt Jones\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKafka and you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 63. Rage Against the Creative Writing Machine: Dada in the House by Pia Simone Garber and Kirsten Jorgenson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGet introduced to the Dada movement and then write a “\u003cbr\u003ebad”\u003cbr\u003e poem and cut it up Dada style.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 64. The Beats and Scribbled Secret Notebooks: Chosen Words and Automatic Writing by Stephen Hess and Curtis Rutherford\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn introduction to Beat poetry complete with how to write like Jack Kerouac.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 65. “\u003cbr\u003eI'\u003cbr\u003em with You in Rockland”\u003cbr\u003e: “\u003cbr\u003eHowl”\u003cbr\u003e and Praise Poems by Stephen Hess and Curtis Rutherford\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLike Allen Ginsberg writing “\u003cbr\u003eHowl,”\u003cbr\u003e write your own praise poem.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 66. A Call to Arms: Rally the Troops by Curtis Rutherford\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLike the Beats, turn your anger into writing that explodes from the page, calling society and your fellow writers to action.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 67. Stealing Tone: Picking Up Where Your Favorite Authors Left Off by Molly Goldman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdentify an author'\u003cbr\u003es moves and make them your own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 68. A Journal of Particulars: Become a Zen Master of Your Senses by Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn this journal-based exercise, get better acquainted with the five senses and write places into a more vivid existence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 69. When Garlic Has Hips: Food Writing and Personification by Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMake everyday foods more vivid by giving them human characteristics and lives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 70. Pets of the Roman Empire, Dinosaurs of Today: Avoiding the Cute Kitty Cat When Writing about Animals by Kirk Pinho\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnvision a major world event that was caused by a pet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 71. Perilous Points of View: Giant Toads! Cockroaches! by Jessie Bailey, Jesse Delong, A. B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreate an animal character and then stretch its wings (or gills or tentacles) out in story after story.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 72. When the Wrecking Ball Falls in Love: Reviving an Inanimate Object by Jessie Bailey, Jesse Delong, A. B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInhabit the mind, body, and soul of a strange and wondrous inanimate object of your choosing, and tell its tale.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 73. The Fairest of Them All: Talking to Objects for a Reason by Theodora Ziolkowski\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat if we could write to our favorite piece of fruit or that cool poster hanging from our bedroom wall?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 74. Time for Rhyme by Pia Simone Garber, Jenny Gropp, Emma Sovich, and Leia Wilson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn this introduction to the many types of rhyme, like poet Robert Frost said, “\u003cbr\u003eall the fun'\u003cbr\u003es in how you say a thing.”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 75. Love Poems and Refrains: Better than “\u003cbr\u003eLemon Ice”\u003cbr\u003e by Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThrow the fanciful and flowery talk aside and be a filthy mess of affection in your own amped-up love poems.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 76. Death Poems: The Tragic and the Comic by Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMake your reader feel the gravity of death in different ways, writing both a comic poem and then a sincere elegy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 77. Political Poems: Big Brother Is Watching You! by Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrainstorm some experiences all people share (love, death, family, etc.) and use them to overturn common ideas about politics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 78. Things That Go Bump in the Night: Reappropriating Stock Vampires, Witches, Zombies, and Other Creatures for a Twenty-First Century Scare by Tasha Coryell, Freya Gibbon, Molly Goldman, Krystin Gollihue, Jess E. Jelsma, Matt Jones, Meredith Noseworthy, Steve Reaugh, Sally Rodgers, and Bethany Startin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTime for \u003ci\u003eThe Ultimate Makeover: Zombie Edition\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 79. The Adult As Villain by Annie Hartnett\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTry a child'\u003cbr\u003es point of view.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 80. Objects and Elements: Set Your Imagination Loose! by Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTake the smallest, seemingly most inconsequential thing and turn it into a grand presence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 81. Weapons of Voice: Practicing Long and Short Sentence Styles by Jesse Delong, Lisa Tallin, and Danilo Thomas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImitate both sparse and long-winded writers in this fiction exercise.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 82. Exercises in Style: The Endless Possibilities of Language by Jenny Gropp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse a hatful of strategies and games to tell the same story over and over again without it ever looking the same.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 83. The N 7 Game: From “\u003cbr\u003eThe Snow Man”\u003cbr\u003e to “\u003cbr\u003eThe Soap Mandible”\u003cbr\u003e by Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn about the French literary movement Oulipo, and then grab a dictionary and an existing piece of writing for the N 7 game.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 84. Cramming It In: Jamming Narrative into a Short Space by Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTell entire stories using only one sentence—\u003cbr\u003eno more!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 85. “\u003cbr\u003eLicking a Glacier Can Change Your DNA”\u003cbr\u003e: Landscape in Prose Poetry and Flash Nonfiction by Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLook at different methods for creating landscape in short forms, write out a landscape you'\u003cbr\u003eve never seen, and then, in the final activity, put your hometown on Mars.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 86. Zero to Hero!: A Superhero of Uncommon Valor by Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConstruct a superhero unlike any the world has ever seen.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 87. World Domination: Planets, Species, Disasters by Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGuide your superhero into battle on a strange and unheard-of planet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 88. Demystifying the Publishing Process by Rachel Adams, A. B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe sooner, the better: this applies to eating ice cream under the sun, finishing your history homework, and publishing your poems and stories. 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