Carolyn Forche describes an affair on a train, Plath a room where her life changed. Now it’s your turn: Recall some place that you visit often, or a place where you occasionally spend time, but one that allows your imagination to soar. In a fifteen-minute free- writing session, describe both that place and one or two of the mental journeys you’ve taken from there. (Don’t limit yourself: This could be a special spot by a stream, a chair where you read good books, or even a movie theater or an art gallery.) When you’re through, go back and circle those words and phrases that do the best job of capturing the concrete, sensory detail of both the place and the experiences you wrote about. Use these, and other, key words and phrases to write a poem of 10-15 lines. Remember how virtually every line of Ted Koozer’s poem about the salesman included concrete imagery? That’s your goal: Every line of your poem should contain at least one of the following: description, simile, metaphor, or metonymy.
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