A JCPL librarian interviews published writers about their favorite writing prompts. These exercises can help inspire, focus, and improve your creative writing.
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Listen to Episode 54
Poet Kevin Nance uses writing prompts regularly because they “can take you places that you never could have gone any other way.”
On this episode, Kevin discusses ways to access the part of the brain that author Marilynne Robinson believes is most creative—your “back mind.” He also shares a prompt that helps his writing students “tap into their inner angst.” Listen below!
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About Kevin Nance
Kevin Nance is a photographer, arts journalist, and poet in Lexington.
He has published widely in newspapers and magazines including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Poets & Writers, and has work in literary journals, including The North American Review, Poet Lore, Willawaw, and Still: The Journal.
His four books include Smoke, published last year by Accents Publishing. Kevin was recently announced as the new editor of Yearling, the poetry journal of Workhorse Writers.