The Poetry Stash: 21May2025

January Sixteenth by Franz Kafka

Today’s selection is “January Sixteenth” by Franz Kafka, translated by Christina Henneman. To read the text, click here.

Prompts:

1.	Begin with “last week was like a breakdown…”
2.	Begin with “The clocks don’t agree…”
3.	Draft a poem that is titled as if a journal entry.
4.	Draft a poem that explores the relationship between public and private spaces.	

5. Photo by Andrea Piacquadio via pexels.com. Use the image as a writing prompt.

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