James Richardson
I taught workshops for decades, almost exclusively beginners because that was the most fun. Some prompts were of course necessary, but I wasn’t prioritizing originality in mine so I have nothing clever to pass on. As you might be able to tell from my speech on process, I don’t actually believe in the kind of “production” of poems that prompts end up prompting. With older students, say in my Shortness workshop, I’d just pass out a bunch of one-line poems (or aphorisms, or greguerias, or haiku or quatrains or whatever) and say, “Hey, see if you can write a page of your own.”