I have to share this poem with what is happening especially since this poet has lost so many family members and his community.

It is wrong (and all too easy) to appropriate others’ trauma but seems callous not to acknowledge the horrors taking place.

Your first prompt is to write a protest poem against the killing of civilians and ethnic cleansing.

The second prompt is use the title of the poem—“the representation of imitation of the real world in literature”—as inspiration. Take a personal moment or conversation to represent the current atrocities or a lesser injustice.

The last prompt is to write a love poem to a lover, a friend, family member(s) or to an entire community.

Good luck writing and may tomorrow be a better day for everyone.