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...

(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...

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

(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...

(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...

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

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

(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...

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

(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,...

(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...

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

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

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

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

(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...

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

Walking across campus flashing eyes toward each other as fall leaves fell and campus bundled up for a long winter of learning to love and...

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

(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...