Take a look at Liz’s fantastic PowerPoint presentation here. She defines the term “psychogeography” and poses the intriguing question: What is the geography of your mind? After using one of her own poems as an example, she encouraged the group to write their own poem in the same style.
WRITING PROMPT:
• Write your own “mind-wandering poem”
• Try to shift between two different “locations” (i.e. how in my poem I alternated between writing about/out of rural locations and urban ones – a city ravine versus the construction of a sauna, etc))
• Who are the people, figures, creatures, etc that populate your two locations (i.e. ducks, father, grandmother, coyote)
• What words and stories do you associate with both places and how can you bring them into the poem (i.e. cellar, pine trees, Ojibway oral history)
• Try to incorporate a dream you’ve had based on one or both locations