Poetry for Strangers - Softcover

Mcketta, Elisabeth Sharp

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ISBN 10: 0990832317 ISBN 13: 9780990832317

Publisher: Frog Prince Press, 2015

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“This book is made up of poems written for strangers. Every week, over the course of two years, I asked a stranger for a word to use in a poem. I had only two rules: The person had to be an actual stranger. The word had to appear in the poem. Aside from that, the poem could be about anything. And so each poem became about many things: the word itself, the stranger-encounter, and the world as I encountered it.”Since its inception, Elisabeth Sharp McKetta’s Poetry for Strangers has changed hundreds of people’s relationship with poetry, mobilizing poets and non-poets alike to share their writing on an eclectic array of weekly words. These poems are a testament to the small moments of beauty in every ordinary life.

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About the Author:

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta teaches writing for Harvard Extension School and is the author of The Fairy Tales Mammals Tell (2013), described by novelist Ben Fountain as a collection of “wise, unflinching poems,” and The Creative Year: 52 Workshops for Writers (2014), praised as a guidebook that “will make everyone want to write.” Her most recent book, Poetry for Strangers (2015), is a lively smorgasbord of poems based on encounters with strangers ranging from post office clerks to Salman Rushdie. Elisabeth's fiction, essays, and poetry have been published widely, and she has been a featured storyteller at many events. When not teaching in Cambridge, she lives with her husband and two small children in Boise, Idaho.

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