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How can the act of writing poetry guide us through insight and discovery? Your prompt this week is to write a poem of “revelations,” poems that lead the reader through some kind of transformation.

To get started, highlight phrases in this week’s readings that guide the reader through a process of discovery. These might be rhetorical turns like Bianca Stone’s question, “What does one do with a ____ really?” or self-talk, as in Robyn Schiff’s “Well that / was unexpected” or Ross Gay’s “easy Tiger / hands to yourself.”

Then, when you’ve created a first draft of a poem, try to pry it apart by inserting one of those discursive turns. What thoughts or observations could be lingered over, complicated, or altered in re-telling?