Sit Down and Write: The Blitz Poem

2024

Jun 3

Featured

is a budding poet, writer, and former Editorial Fellow for The Poetry Lab. Her stories have appeared in ¡Pa'lante!, The Plentitudes, Press Pause Press, and elsewhere. She has been a Harriet Williams Emerging Writer awardee by Literary Women Long Beach. Marilyn is the Fiction Editor for The Plentitudes and is currently working on a collection of short stories that contemplate womanhood, the body, Mexican Catholicism, and the power of blended language. Marilyn uses she/her pronouns.

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Hey poet!

Welcome to the blitz poem!

In this episode, Marilyn invites listeners to sit down, grab a bevy, and get to writing their first blitz.

The blitz is a 50-line poem form with specific rules for a surprise outcome.

Marilyn shares her personal struggle with dedicating time to creative writing and invites listeners to join her in exploring the blitz as a quick and fun writing exercise. Join us on this low-stakes, high-fun writing episode.