John W. Evans is winner of the 2022 Rattle Poetry Prize for The Fight Journal. He's also the author of Should I Still Wish: A Memoir (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), Young Widower: A Memoir (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), and The Consolations: Poems (Trio House Press, 2014). His books have won prizes including the Peace Corps Writers Book Prize, a ForeWord Reviews Book Prize, the River Teeth Book Prize, the Sawtooth Poetry Prize, and the Trio Award. Should I Still Wish is published in the American Lives Series. John is currently the Phyllis Draper Lecturer in Nonfiction at Stanford University, where he was previously a Jones Lecturer and a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He lives in Northern California with his three young sons. (web)

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This Week’s Prompt:

Personify a place where you’ve lived as if it were a character sketch of a real person.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a series of small poems as journal entries this week. Each day, write about a detail that you would want your future self to remember.

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