The Poetry Stash: 5May2025

To the Desert by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Today’s poem is “To the Desert” by Benjamin Alire Sáenz from the Ecopoetry anthology edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street. The book is available for purchase here.

To the Desert by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Prompts:

1.	Begin with “You taught me how…”
2.	Begin with “I was born for…”
3.	Draft a poem that is addressed to a landscape.
4.	Draft a poem that includes more than one language.

5. Photo by pascal claivaz via pexels.com. Use the image as a writing prompt.

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