welcome to homeland stories!

- what's your name

- where do you call home?

- describe your name origin

-expand on the previous prompt: where do you call home?

- what do you define a 'home' as?

- we encourage you to use any writing medium you're comfortable with

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read this poem by Chinese-American poet Chen Chen, author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

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what does this line mean to you?:

"what is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?/To have forgotten the faces one first kissed?"

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Do you ever find yourself making up more interesting versions of a story? Does this tell you anything about human nature?

read "Living in Sin" by Adrienne Rich, American poet, feminist, and essayist

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1. Discuss the title of the poem, "Living in Sin"- what is so "sinful" about this existence Rich describes?

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2. How does a poem change the way you seem home? Can a house truly be considered home? Why or why not?

write a poem or prose piece about when home changed for you

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describe a relationship/experience in your life using physical objects or parts of the environment that reminds you of that particular moment