(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...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem of origin.) I have a memory of a pit in the deep desert sand and my father down in it. I have a...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that starts from a regional phrase, particularly one to describe a weather phenomenon.) It...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: asks you to engage in another kind of cross-cultural exercise, as it is inspired by the work of Sei Shonagon,...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: Today, I’d like to challenge you to think about the argot of a particular job or profession, and see how you...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem of gifts and joy. What would you give yourself, if you could have anything? What would you give...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that emphasizes the power of “if,” of the woulds and coulds and shoulds of the world.) Imagine,...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: today we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that incorporates at least one of the following: (1) the...

(from the SLCC prompt: write a poem about the fabric of your life (literally or figuratively).) He mentions my red flannel shirt first...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write something that involves a story or action that unfolds over an appreciable length of time. Perhaps, as...

(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that similarly resists closure by ending on a question, inviting the reader to continue the...

(from the SLCC prompt: write a poem about the process of traveling from one place to another.) I returned to an old town I’d once called...

(from the SLCC Prompt: write a poem about your breakfast.) With ten minutes before class, I opened up the lunchbox you packed for me. I...

(from the NaPoWriMo Prompt: write poems that provide the reader with instructions on how to do something.) We’re getting healthy in my...

The National Poetry Writing Month is upon us! All hail the crazy! So, the goal of writing 30 poems in 30 days is a little crazy, but not...