poetry prompts online: An updated list

Links to poetry prompts online
(Don’t be put off by some of the dates for these poetry prompts online: these sites are timeless resources!)

• Donna Vorreyer’s archives:
  • Tow Truck Archive
  • Mix Tape Archive
• Robert Peake’s poetry prompt generator (active)
• Kelli Russell Agodon’s prompts for
  • NaPoWriMo 2010
  • NaPoWriMo 2008
  • plus “30 Writing Prompts for National Poetry Month“
• Emilia Phillips’ “Creative Writing Exercises” (active)
• Official NaPoWriMo’s prompts for
  • April 2017
  • April 2016
  • April 2015
  • April 2014
  • April 2013
• Bernadette Mayer’s writing experiments ideas
• Robert Lee Brewer’s Poetic Asides November PAD challenge prompts for
  • November 2017
  • November 2016
  • November 2015
  • November 2014
  • November 2013
  • November 2012
• Robert Lee Brewer’s Poetic Asides “Wednesday Writing Prompts” (active)
• The Poetry Prompts tumblr (active)
• Sunday Scribblings (archived/available through 2013)
• The Time is Now writing prompts from Poets & Writers (active)
• Three Word Wednesday (archived/available through June 2017)
• We Write Poems prompts (archived through 2014)
• Creative Writing Now prompts for poetry (archive)
• Melissa Donovan’s Writing Forward poetry prompts (active)
• tweetspeak’s poetry prompts (active)
• @Gyroscopereview’s #promptsforpoets (active; Twitter)
• Poets United Midweek Motif (active)
• dVerse Poets Pub (active)
• writing prompts facebook page (active)

Tell me in the comments what I should add to this list.

(I’ll update the post with your ideas as we go!)

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People either love prompts or they hate ’em. I’m clearly a big fan. I’ve been using, writing and sharing prompts (like these) since my earliest days networking online (2003?). The old prompt list I’d published here wasn’t *that* old, but it did date back to 2013. So! It was time for an update. I removed those that were totally defunct (as in no longer available online) and expanded those where more was available than I’d originally shared.

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The image in this post is a mural I photographed during a stop in Turners Falls, MA.