Creativity Rekindled
Smithies Create
Published February 23, 2021
Remember when you longed to be a writer as a teenager, and it seemed that inspiration was everywhere?
A new book from award-winning poets Jessica Jacobs ’02 and her wife, Nickole Brown, aims to recapture those fevered days—and make you a better wordsmith in the process. Write It!: 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire is a guided journal with fun writing exercises that ask you to observe your face in a mirror, compose a letter to a tree, imagine your afterlife and more. Poet Tiana Clark likens the prompts to “lit matches” waiting to spark your creativity.
WRITE IT!: 100 POETRY PROMPTS TO INSPIRE
Jessica Jacobs ’02 and Nickole Brown
Spruce Books, 2020
This story appears as part of the Smithies Create column in the Winter 2020–21 issue of the Smith Alumnae Quarterly.
Award-winning poets Jessica Jacobs ’02, right, and her wife, Nickole Brown.