This year’s Year of the Tiger begins on Sunday, Feb. 14th (according to the Gregorian calendar).
For most people, the approach of the New Year (whether according to the Gregorian or Lunar calendar) signals a time to reflect upon our habits and to make lifestyle changes in order to have a “fresh start” in the coming [...]
Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been 81 years old today. I wanted to do a prompt this week which engaged thoughtfully (in some way) with his legacy—with the work that he began and which continues today—and so I was pleased to stumble upon Laura Gamache’s lesson plan, “The Right to Inquire” (on the Teachers [...]
It’s been a superhero kind of week. Inspired simultaneously by this song, this NPR story, and by an article (I think from Teachers & Writers’ Collaborative magazine) in which a writing teacher asked her tentative students to write about their secret superpowers, I developed a prompt about superheroes to use with a group of adult [...]
Note: This prompt was first introduced to me by poet and UW professor Andrew Feld, author of Citizen (Harper Collins, 2004). Because I found it so helpful to my own writing, I have decided to share it with Lantern Review.
The art of rhetoric, one of the ancient arts of discourse, is the art of persuasion and [...]
In 2008, Florida-based poet Nick Carbo published the poem ”Directions to My Imaginary Childhood” in the Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry From the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (eds. Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar). ”Directions” sweeps the reader through the bustling streets of Manila and then, in an eerily meta-textual moment, onto [...]
