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Celebrate small things, find creative inspiration in your junk drawer, give thanks (sincere or sarcastic), maybe even write an inaugural poem. Valerie Fox and Lynn Levin, both Drexel University creative writing instructors and co-authors of the acclaimed Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets, Second Edition, will help you power up your poetry with their signature prompts. Fox and Levin’s poetry prompts book was a finalist in Writing/Publishing in the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Poets, student poets, teachers, and all who are looking for new ideas, inspiration, and fun should tune into this episode of Philly Loves Poetry.

Valerie Fox grew up in central Pennsylvania. She currently lives in New Jersey with her family and teaches at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Recent work can be found in New Flash Fiction Review, The Cafe Irreal, Juked, Literary Orphans, Reflex, and Cleaver. Much interested in collaboration, she has worked with artist Jacklynn Niemiec  and writer Arlene Ang (Collaborative poems with Ang from Poemeleon).

Lynn Levin’s most recent poetry collection, The Minor Virtues is listed as one of Spring 2020’s best books by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Poet Ross Gay calls the book “a lovely honoring of the small, the minor sweetnesses that a life is made of.” Her previous collections include Miss Plastique, Fair Creatures of an Hour, and Imaginarium. She is the translatorof Birds on the Kiswar Tree by Odi Gonzales and co-author of Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets. Her poems have appeared in Boulevard, Artful Dodge, Rattle, on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, and other places.

Charles S. Carr, Host