30 days of prompts: day 10

& resources, recommendations, etc.

Happy Wednesday!

Here’s what I have for you today:

• The prompt

• Housekeeping

• Resources

• Recommendations

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Day 10: Prompt

Write a poem that touches on the topic of mental (or physical!) illness.

Here are some great books with physical illness/disability as a central theme:

• Hinge, Molly Spencer

• Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, Torrin A. Greathouse

• The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, Molly McCully Brown

• My Alexandria, Mark Doty

• Ceremonies, Essex Hemphill

Here are some great books with mental illness as a central theme:

• The Complete Poems, Anne Sexton

• The Collected Poems, Sylvia Plath

• Water I Won’t Touch, Kayleb Rae Candrilli

• Crush, Richard Siken

Here are some individual poems worth looking at:

• Major Depressive Disorder (Recurrent), Marissa Ahmadkhani

• Sick4Sick, torrin a. greathouse

• i landed in guatemala last week, Katey Linskey

• Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath

• Trauma Theory, Audrey Gidman

• Wanting to Die, Anne Sexton

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Housekeeping:

Thank you all for genuinely, like, keeping me alive.

& as always:

I am selling new to lightly-used books for very cheap.

&

I wrote a lil e-book guide to publishing poems (&, as a lil extra: applying to graduate programs).

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Resources:

• A (paying!) submission opportunity for prose writers

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Recommendations:

This is doing wonders for my hair.

This is the only sunscreen I’m willing to *actually wear.*

Sobbing over this TikTok.

Rip.

After a traumatic trip to the vet (only a check-up, Stella’s fine, vets are just mean), I’ve been coddling my cat’s teeth. She actually bears this toothpaste, and maybe even likes the taste of it. She loves these treats. And she’s relatively enthusiastic about these, too. I recommend them.

I have a bazillion earrings so I hate earbuds. These headphones are nice, though.

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