Can I be too ____ to write these days? Too set, too predictable, too enjambed in my ways, offering too few new words to everyone else,...

Excited to announce that Silver Birch Press has published one of my poems today in their MY FRONT DOOR Series! Check out their site for...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem about something that returns.) [Just like last year, I got behind at the end. No matter, it is...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a paean to the stalwart hero of your household: your pet. Sing high your praises and tell the tale of...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem in the form of a review. But not a review of a book or a movie of a restaurant. Instead, I...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: Because it’s a Saturday, I have an (optional) prompt for you that takes a little time to work through —...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write about a particular fruit – your choice.) [To be honest, I wasn't looking forward to this still life...

When the sandhill cranes struggle up into their mighty V, the gust and flap of wings becomes a unison call—honk, honk honk! I am here!...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem based on a “walking archive.” What’s that? Well, it’s when you go on a walk and gather up...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write an ode to life’s small pleasures. Perhaps it’s the first sip of your morning coffee. Or finding some...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that features forgotten technology.)[I have a lot of students who know what those things are and...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem of over-the-top compliments.)[I was so not feeling this prompt. It mentions the Cole Porter song...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem inspired by your favorite kind of music.)[So, two things: 1) a friend asked me the other day...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that deals with the poems, poets, and other people who inspired you to write poems.) [This was...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a non-apology for the things you’ve stolen.) I suppose I’m sorry I took them from your soft, pink lips,...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a triolet.) [Ugh, my least favorite—rhyming. I actually tried, for what it is worth, but just couldn't...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem in which one or more flowers take on specific meanings.) Before the daisy or rudbeckia announce...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: This is another one from the archives, first suggested to us by long-time Na/GloPoWriMo participant Vince...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a “concrete” poem – a poem in which the lines and words are organized to take a shape that reflects in...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: to peruse the work of one or more of these twitter bots, and use a line or two, or a phrase or even a word...