april 18, prompt: for the lovers i remember being young and on fire knowing how important it was that i do everything i can but now its so loud how […]
Tag: napowrimo
cloud
soft pulled in to the earth by the weight full lost in the pale thick with darkness catching sunlight crushing, all around every texture on earth will be found here […]
Pandowrimo
for a few years, i have participated in a national poetry writing practice (#napowrimo) in april. this year, april fell in the midst of a global pandemic that has left […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]