Hello YCA Fam,

And welcome to the new weekly blog we call The Lesson! From this Wednesday forward we invite you to express yourselves. Every week we will be sharing a writing prompt from either Check The Method or Wordplay. These workshops are developed  If you write poems to these prompts or have thoughts on the readings tag us in your own social media posts- we are @youngchiauthors on Twitter & @youngchicagoauthors on Instagram.

Lists:

Make a list of things you were embarrassed about when you were younger
Make a list of things you wish you had when you were younger
Make a list of things you inherited from your parents or elders
Make a list of things you rejected/tried not to inherit from your parents or elders

Reads:

Choi Jeong Min by Franny Choi
Why I Hate Raisins by Natalie Diaz

Write:

Write a poem about something you inherited from your parents that you didn’t want to inherit or didn’t always appreciate.