Abstract
Susan Wooldridge’s (1996) Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words is a collection of writing invitations designed to inspire and motivate people to write poetry. The poem, “Bring Me Magic” (p. 109) invites students to self-select meaningful or simply unique objects and to write about them in a three-line poem. I like to share this poem with students because the form is simple yet powerful. In the words of Fletcher (2002), it is “short and potent” (p. 13).
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Leigh, S.R. (2014). Aesthetic Gifts. In: Wounded Writers Ask. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-713-1_3
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