final poem of the month! write a poem about something that happens again and again i can only do something small the ripple still reaches the shore when we meet […]
Tag: black liberation
duty (assata)
take one of your favorite poems and find a very specific, concrete noun in it. For example, if your favorite poem is this verse of Emily Dickinson’s, you might choose […]
on my tongue
write a poem that explores your sense of taste a tin cup at my lip, a copper penny hidden in my cheek cold water overflowing my mouth and I’m thirsty […]
detritus
Have you ever heard someone wonder what future archaeologists, whether human or from alien civilization, will make of us? Today, I’d like to challenge you to answer that question in […]
scribble
write a poem of ekphrasis — that is, a poem inspired by a work of art. But I’d also like to challenge you to base your poem on a very […]
black. liberation.
Our prompt for Day Twenty-Three comes to us from Gloria Gonsalves, who challenges us to write a double elevenie. What’s that? Well, an elevenie is an eleven-word poem of five […]
full of blood
write a poem that incorporates overheard speech. “she was full of blood” she was pulsing and messy lying easily to her masters pretty faced, and wet between the thighs she […]
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 […]
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 […]