Alice Pettway is the author of The Time of Hunger (Salmon Poetry, 2017), Moth (Salmon Poetry, 2019) and Station Lights (forthcoming 2021). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, The Bitter Oleander, The Colorado Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, River Styx, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review and many others. She is a former Chulitna Artist and Lily Peter fellow. Currently, Pettway lives and writes near Seattle, Washington.

For more info, visit Alice's website:

https://www.alicepettway.com/

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This Week's Prompt:

Write a letter poem to an abstract concept.

Next Week's Prompt:

Write a poem that contains the following randomly-selected adjectives: large, knotty, salty.

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