(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: [write a poem following the] “Twenty Little Poetry Projects.” The challenge is to use/do all of the following in the same poem. [...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem based on an image from a dream. We don’t always remember our dreams, but images or ideas from them often stick with ...

Sitting by the glass doors my back porch beyond sipping coffee and waiting for my whole wheat English muffins— that I made after watching a Canadian demonstr...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: Today’s prompt (optional, as always) asks you to make use of our resource for the day. First, make a list of ten words. You can g...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem about a specific place.) <Perhaps dinner is not a place to most, but when you don't really grow up with one brick-an...

(from the napowrimo prompt: write a self-portrait poem in which you make a specific action a metaphor for your life – one that typically isn’t done all that ...

Here we go again! 30 poems in 30 days. I'll be posting the prompts with my attempt at responding the prompt each day in April. (Last year was very different ...

(from the Early Bird napowrimo prompt: write a poem about your favorite bird.) If there is a bird that darts, flits and fros, zigs, pops, jumps, or appears i...

To say that March has been difficult would be, of course, a gross understatement. The world has ended and we are just starting to figure out how to live in t...

Celebrate World Poetry Day! https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-poetry-day

from Ancient Memories Sometimes, in January, the air warms up and the snow melts, warnings of fog are issued and my dog is confused by all the smells from he...

Last night one too many Irish coffees & dithering about plans for today Sun rise, deep fog in the trees black brown red fingers pointing into whiteness <Plop...

“Wow, these are a booger! I think they hired a bunch of three-year-olds…” He is untwining Christmas lights from a box. I did not put them away last year. The...

When I was younger, if my socked-foot had started to slip while I was peeing into the toilet, I have no doubt that I would have reined in that errant foot, p...

cold mornings when my bare feet slip on the bathroom’s tiled floor and robins preen in front of our porch a deer starts in the yard when I open the back door...

There is a pin oak behind my house leaning west over the porch. In the right season, acorns begin dropping on the bleached, green-flushing wood and on the st...

>Thank you, James (www.jamesbrandess.com/@jamesbrandess) for the inspiration and the art. You help us all to define "Saugatuck." I know a guy who paints the w...

(Or: On Being Married to a Struggling Writer During National Poetry Writing Month) I said to him: This prompt is hard. How am I supposed to meditate “from a ...

Materials 1 sheet black paper 1 pin 1 lamp, shade optional 1 small ball or orb, 3-5 inches in diameter Instructions Take a sheet of jet-black paper and a pin...

I had some sophomores tell me recently that they were concerned that the gains they had made as writers this year might be lost if they didn't have a writing...