October-November Exchange Open + free Prompt!

Hello poets! The October-November Exchange is now open. Click here to submit a poem.  To get in touch with a question, collaboration, or hard to format poem, email fishwritespoetry@gmail.com. 

You might like to use this prompt from the Aug-Sep Exchange:

Write a poem of epithets. Title your poem with the name of a thing, a person, a place, an activity. Then write, “I name it only because I have no choice.” Then write many epithets, alternatives, titles, etc for your thing. Example:


Ferret

I name it because I have no choice:
tube-snake, wire-muncher,
serpent with fur,
devourer of my budget,
hitchhiker from Pet-Smart,
beloved pet.

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This month's prompt is drawn from Asuka Inoshita’s essay “What Awaits: Eisai’s Great Mind and the Limits of a Quantum Analogy.” The essay is free on her Medium, @asukawrites. Asuka is a Shinshu-Buddhism priestess, AI research engineer, graphic designer, system engineering (JHU) and design school (FIT) grad, and world traveler.