Write about a moment of misconnection—mis-seeing, mishearing, or misremembering. You may write about a small moment (walking around your neighborhood, you think a wrapper is a flower), a big event (a family remembers an important day differently than you do), or something in the middle. 

Write into the relationship between these two memories, objects, or sounds. Is there tension or closeness? What might their similarities, and differences, reveal? Your poem can also reflect this relationship visually—showing two things running parallel, in dialogue or disagreement, or meeting and melding.

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Millie Tullis (she/they) is a writer, editor, teacher, and researcher. She holds an MFA from George Mason University and an MA in American Studies & Folklore from Utah State University. These Saints are Stones (Signature Books, 2026) is her first full-length collection. Millie’s digital micro-chap, Dream With Teeth, was published by Ghost City Press in 2023. Her poetry has been published in Sugar House Review, Stone Circle Review, Cimarron Review, Ninth Letter, SWWIM, Moist Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Millie is the Editor-in-Chief of Psaltery & Lyre and Exponent II. Raised in northern Utah, she lives and works in upstate South Carolina.