Tresha Faye Haefner has studied poetry outside of academia with poets including Kim Addonizio, Sally Ashton, and Ellen Bass. Her own work has been published in several journals, including BloodLotus, The Cincinnati Review Fourth River, Hunger Mountain, Pirene’s Fountain, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, and Rattle. She is founder of The Poetry Salon and is the recipient of the 2011 Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize. Haefner is also a three time Pushcart nominee and author of two chapbooks, The Lone Breakable Night and Take This Longing from Finishing Line Press. She holds a degree in Humanistic Psychology with a Specialization in Creativity Studies from Saybrook University. Her new book, When the Moon Had Antlers, won the Pangea Prize is out this spring from Pine Row Press.

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This Week’s Prompt:

Use an object as metaphor for some aspect of the body, as Julia does with fruit in 40 Weeks. Write a poem using colons to create a string of similes, as she does throughout the book.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem about something you will never do.

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