Jessica Jacobs is an award-winning poet and the author of TakeMe with You, Wherever You're Going, and InWhatever Light Left to Us. Nickole Brown is the author of Sister,Fanny Says, and The Donkey Elegies. She once worked as editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. When not at home in Asheville, North Carolina, Jessica and Nickole are leading poetry workshops around the world.
“Write It! might be one of the friendliest poetry tool
kits/notebooks ever. As the title suggests, the book is very
direct. How do people write about feelings too difficult to face
directly? Is listening to trees possible? Is that rain talking to
me? How many names does any person really have? The editors—Jessica
Jacobs and Nickole Brown, both fine poets themselves—make us feel
lucky to sit at their table. Readers will learn about writers and
quotations, multiple perspectives, possibilities, and tactics while
feeling deeply befriended all the way. Who knows where you might
go? I plan to write on every page.”
—Naomi Shihab Nye, Poetry Foundation's Young People’s Poet
Laureate
“Write It! is an absolute pleasure, a gentle, encouraging
guide for discovering the stories around and within us. Jacobs and
Brown serve as fairy godpoets, bringing us the words and wisdom of
beloved writers along with prompts to inspire and embolden. This
book asks us to be curious and open, to find ourselves in the
mirror and on the page. It shows us how to eavesdrop on the world
and our own hearts.”
—Janet McNally, The Looking Glass
“These soul-searching prompts inspire conversations with oneself,
our world, and poets who have come before us. As a teacher and
author, I’m equally excited about sharing this book with my
students and diving in myself!”
—Nicole Kronzer, Unscripted
“Jessica Jacobs and Nickole Brown are two poets of presence,
passion, and purpose. I am constantly learning from their brilliant
poems and how they both inhabit the natural world around with them
with immense light and graceful precision. This book of beautiful
writing prompts is a safe space to explore the depths of your
imagination, overflowing with favorite lines from beloved writers
and soul-stirring questions. Write It! will help you
deepen your writing practice as well as your relationship to
identity, place, and community. Sometimes there is nothing more
terrifying than a blank page or blinking cursor. Sometimes you need
the right nudge and spark, these one hundred prompts are lit
matches waiting for you”
—Tiana Clark, I Can’t Talk About The Trees Without The
Blood
Ask a Question About this Product More... |