Award-winning Toronto-based poet Kevin Connolly invites you to experiment with chance operation in his writing exercise. Try it!
Materials:
A cranium
About two Hours
A copy of Jane Eyre
The Task:
Write a 21 line poem about “regret.” You can divide the stanzas as you wish, but they should be regular (i.e. three seven-line stanzas, or, seven three-line stanzas, etc.)
Go to your copy of Jane Eyre. Open the book randomly and without looking, put your finger on a word. The first interesting word you find, that’s the last word of your last line.