So, I've never been a trophy guy, one of those people who always wants to win and thinks that if you don't win you have somehow lost or are broken or flawed....

(from the napowrimo prompt: And last but not least, now for our final (but still optional) prompt for this year! Taking a leaf from our video resource, I’d l...

(from the napowrimo prompt: write a poem that meditates, from a position of tranquility, on an emotion you have felt powerfully.) Let’s talk about loss. I’ve...

(from the napowrimo prompt: try your hand at a meta-poem of your own.) When he sits to write about the morning air, the poet voice says use all the words and...

(from the napowrimo prompt: “remix” a Shakespearean sonnet. Here’s all of Shakespeare’s sonnets. You can pick a line you like and use it as the genesis for ...

(from the napowrimo prompt: write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a word, or phrase. You can even repeat an image, perhaps slightly changing or e...

(from the napowrimo prompt: write a poem that: Is specific to a season Uses imagery that relates to all five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell) I...

(from the SLCC prompt: write a tricube.) Dominion I walk the dirt road by my tree line Bluejay sights high up from black locust Fox crouches in tall grass at...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem about an animal.) Hey, you! Fat cardinal! Is it really happening? Are you that stoplight red because the cold has en...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that engages with another art form – it might be about a friend of yours who paints or sculpts, your high school str...

(from the SLCC prompt: write a poem about a favorite picture book you read when you were younger.) In the long shadow of Midas and Cassandra resides the big-...

(from NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that “talks.”) Good morning! How did you sleep? Well. I’m going to fill the bird feeders this morning and I’ve got to ge...

(from the SLCC prompt: write a poem about forgetting something important.) The neighborhoods I grew up in are gone and the towns they composed are changed— b...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write an elegy of your own, one in which the abstraction of sadness is communicated not through abstract words, but physical deta...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that similarly presents a scene from an unusual point of view. Perhaps you could write a poem that presents Sir Isaa...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that uses the form of a list to defamiliarize the mundane.) 1. Listen to you get up with the alarm. 2. Wait for you ...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write your own dramatic monologue.) <Again, I just went with it. Not going to lie, I'm looking forward to writing my own prompts ...

(from NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that incorporates homophones, homographs, and homonyms, or otherwise makes productive use of English’s ridiculously comp...

(from the SLCC prompt: write a poem about the weather outside right now.) First spring sunlight shines everywhere like a Kodak flash— even under eaves and le...

(from the SLCC prompt: write a poem about a smell that floods your memory every time you smell it.) Fried eggs and spam as the sun crests Ajdabiya and we are...