Today, I challenge you to write a poem that incorporates the vocabulary and imagery of a specific sport or game. our ancestors built almost everything on the board but mostly, […]
Month: April 2017
how that baby came
write a poem that recounts a creation myth. of course this is the prompt on the day i remember what i forgot which i would never forget but my life […]
the big thank you
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds was the work of many many people and i wanted to properly thank them all. i wrote this book in several places so if […]
blackeration
Today, I challenge you to write a poem that incorporates neologisms. What’s that? Well, it’s a made-up word! blackeration: to put black all over it to imbue with black love […]
nocturne for survivors
Today, I challenge you to write a nocturne. it is the same rivers moving through me at the speed of light carrying the weight of oxygen telling me live even […]
dear dear dear
Your poem can be in the form of a letter to a person, place, or thing, or in the form of a back-and-forth correspondence. dear expert no one can be […]
bottom of the circle
Because we’re halfway through NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that reflects on the nature of being in the middle of something. the cycle moves […]
nbecky dolezal
Because it’s Friday, let’s keep it light and silly today, with a clerihew. This is a four line poem biographical poem that satirizes a famous person. an invitation to poetic […]
there is no comfort
Today’s prompt is an oldie-but-a-goody: the ghazal. The form was originally developed in Arabic and Persian poetry, but has become increasingly used in English, after being popularized by poets including […]
particular sounds of freedom
I’d like you to write a poem that explicitly incorporates alliteration (the use of repeated consonant sounds) and assonance (the use of repeated vowel sounds). blurred blinding bliss! to acknowledge […]