Road Trip as Liminal Space

Content: Write a poem that takes a road trip or that takes on the road trip: the peculiar intimacy of the inside of the car, the intenseness of the company in such close quarters, the openness and possibility of the road itself, the in-betweenness of the experience. The way time blurs. The journey, the destination, the place left behind. 

Form: Make it a prose poem, but resist narrative. Shake up chronology. Avoid the expected here-to-there progression of a road trip. Let your sentences blur, one into the next. Let your syntax reflect the liminality, the on-the-way-ness of the journey.

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Amorak Huey is co-editor of River River Books and author of Mouth, newly out from Cornerstone Press. He has written a lot of road trip poems.