CREATIVE WRITING
at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco
Welcome! CW develops the art and craft of creative writing through instruction, collaboration, and respect. This blog showcases STUDENT WRITING and how to APPLY to Creative Writing.
Tag: poetry
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Time is well spent if time is spent wacky. One poetry prompt we had wore the wacky hat especially well. Created by CA Conrad, it goes as follows: “Wash a penny, rinse it, slip it under your tongue and walk out the door. Copper is the metal of Aphrodite, never ever forget this, never, don’t…
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This is the Creative Writing department’s first year with our wonderful new department head, Emily Wolahan—and for me, writing is less stressful than it has been since middle school. For the past two years, I have found myself plagued with writers’ block whenever I receive a Creative Writing assignment. Our teacher starts the timer for…
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Under the tutelage of our new Creative Writing director, Emily Wolahan, Creative Writing began a new, and my last, poetry unit. Unfortunately, the poetry unit had to start while San Francisco experienced one of the worst heat waves I can remember. Ninety-four degrees in San Francisco? Thank you, global warming, it’s always fun to receive…
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I was never sure what it meant to write a poem without making it some fun game about rhyming each line. In elementary and middle school poetry assignments I would try to use the weirdest words I could find, then subsequently attempt to rhyme the word orange. I thought I was so clever using the…
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On Tuesday, October 24th, the Creative Writers are on a field trip to see the Kinship exhibit at SFMoMA, a compilation of six photographers who approach human connection and vulnerability differently. I admit I was not excited to look at pictures in a museum. Where’s the fun in that? The day before, we viewed some…
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Poetry has always been a cornerstone of every Creative Writer’s repertoire. This year, there is no exception. Every school year, there has always been a unit on poetry, which would be capped off by a performance sometime in the late months of Fall. Despite this, these units have not once had complaints raised against them…
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The Creative Writing department room is loved by many Creative Writers and non-Creative Writers. We house walls of past-show posters, the lion statue whose rocking his yellow cowboy hat, and a widespread rug that entices you to a few minutes of nap time. However, the most beloved of all is the bird clock in the…
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I am standing on stage and the curtain has risen; I can see the gleaming faces of my family and friends in the audience. I feel warm and comforted. I have been standing on this stage, a culmination of years spent honing the craft of creative writing, for four years now. I have one final…
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I wrote this poem as a response to the “Self Doubt” prompt we receive every year during community weeks in Creative Writing. I have both enjoyed and been surprised by the ways in which the poetry I’ve produced from this prompt has evolved. This year I focused on how the loss of someone important in…
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Even before I’d entered the Creative Writing program at RASOTA, I had been made aware of the infamous “lit crits,” or literary critiques. I was told how challenging and high stakes they were, my fellow Creative Writers talking about pulling all-nighters and laboring for hours when writing them. Which is why I became anxious when…
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