[S1E3] Ray McNiece: Poetry of Collective Experience

Poetry Spotlight

Writing Prompt: Try meditation as a pre-writing warm-up. Make an effort to get in-tune with your higher self on a more conscious level. Ask yourself "Who am I?" and "What do I really believe in?" Jot down a list of social norms and societal customs that you totally disagree with. Think about laws, ideas, rules that you feel need to be changed or omitted from society as we know it.

Now reflect on personal freedom. in what ways do we, as individuals, need to change in order to live more authentic lifestyles customary only to ourselves? Take your brainstorming material and set out to write a great Beat poem in the style of Ginsberg & Ferlinghetti.