{"id":30196,"date":"2017-08-05T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=30196"},"modified":"2017-08-03T23:15:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T03:15:37","slug":"prompt-for-hour-eight-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/prompt-for-hour-eight-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt for Hour Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prompt for hour eight is to write a golden shovel. Not familiar with the form? That is not surprising, it was created in 2010 by the poet Terrance Hayes in his poem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems-and-poets\/poems\/detail\/55678\">The Golden Shovel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is pretty simple though. First you take a line or lines from a poem you admire.<\/p>\n<p>Use each word from the line(s) as the end word of each of the lines in your poem. So for example if you used a line with ten words, your poem should be ten lines long.<\/p>\n<p>Keep those words in order.<\/p>\n<p>Give credit to the original poet.<\/p>\n<p>Below is an example. The original line inspiring it is &#8220;<span class=\"st\">Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone&#8221; by W.H. Auden <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">When you asked me yesterday to stop <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">at the top of the hill and look out at all <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">the cliffs that form the walls of the <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">valley, <\/span><span class=\"st\">I shook my head and pointed at the clocks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">Now I want nothing more but to cut <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">work with you, to take every hour off <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">to be spent on the trail, in a hammock, in the <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">pool, anything. For the person to be you, on the other side of the ringing telephone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prompt for hour eight is to write a golden shovel. Not familiar with the form? That is not surprising, it was created in 2010 by the poet Terrance Hayes in his poem The Golden Shovel. It is pretty simple though. First you take a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31048,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30196\/revisions\/31048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}