Everyday Perspectives
Nate Marshall
April 17, 2020
Examine the strange and unfamiliar inspired by Robert Hayden and The Little Mermaid
Source Material:
- “American Journal” by Robert Hayden
- “Part of Your World” – The Little Mermaid
Prompt: Take a look at your everyday common things and write about it in a perspective that makes it strange and unfamiliar
Nate Marshall
Nate Marshall is an award-winning author, editor, poet, playwright, performer, educator, speaker, and rapper. He is also an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and he also co-curates The BreakBeat Poets series for Haymarket Books. His next book, FINNA, is out from One World/Random House.
His book, Wild Hundreds, was honored with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s award for Poetry Book of the Year and The Great Lakes College Association’s New Writer Award.