"Poets are interested mostly in death and commas," the poet Carolyn Kizer once said. The Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago famously disregarded conventional norms of punctuation. Can you?

The Quarantine Quill is a creative writing podcast hosted by Anna Polonyi with the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking. The podcast will be bringing you a daily writing tip and prompt for as long as PICT's creative writing events are on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Mentioned in this episode: Carolyn Kizer, José Saramago's obituary in The Economist (2010), e e cummings, Cormac McCarthy, James Joyce's Ulysses, Ursula K. Leguin's Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story.

Music: Carole Cassier.

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