Archive - A Few Crooked Words

Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Frog Hollow Poetry Prize

Because sometimes, just sometimes, poetry means fame and glory and cold hard cash

Jun 10 •

Becca Rose Hall

May 2025

Trying to convince middle-schoolers that being in your forties is not the same as science fiction

May 23 •

Becca Rose Hall

April 2025

Portraits of the Artists as Young Poets

The Frog Hollow Portrait Exhibits

Apr 10 •

Becca Rose Hall

No Masters, No Ladies. Maybe World-Dominating Cows

Monologues and the collaborative future

Apr 2 •

Becca Rose Hall

January 2025

Martin Luther King Jr in a Hat

A wacky story-writing game

Jan 31 •

Becca Rose Hall

A simple prompt to work with memories

Jan 17 •

Becca Rose Hall

November 2024

Something to talk about with the relatives

family oral history prompts

Nov 27, 2024 •

Becca Rose Hall

Revisiting Old Poems

Old prompts and old students resurface, and "Stardust" by Amaya Banga

Nov 4, 2024 •

Becca Rose Hall

August 2024

I'm Buried in Books!

Please don't rescue me

Aug 31, 2024 •

Becca Rose Hall

The Artist Upstairs

Announcing Frog Hollow's 2024 anthology (finally)

Aug 17, 2024 •

Becca Rose Hall

July 2024

Hello from Sourdough Mountain

Thoughts from a distance on the heart of teaching

Jul 25, 2024 •

Becca Rose Hall

A poem can be as big as the universe

Poetry about poetry

Jul 1, 2024 •

Becca Rose Hall

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