30 poetry prompts for NAPOWRIMO 2023
POETRY PROMPTS / Simple, straightforward prompts to use as inspiration for this year’s poem-a-day extravaganza!
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30 poetry prompts for NAPOWRIMO 2022
POETRY PROMPTS / Simple, straightforward prompts to use as inspiration for this year’s poem-a-day extravaganza!
3 poetry prompts inspired by poems from ruth madievsky
POETRY PROMPT / I introduce three poems by Ruth Madievsky — “Electron,” “Wormhole” and “Tuning Fork” — and invite you to use them as inspiration for your own drafts.
choose a word and write a love poem to it
POETRY PROMPT / I break down Ada Limon’s “Lover” as a source of inspiration for you to write a love poem to a word you love.
poetry prompt about the repetitive tasks of caregiving
POETRY PROMPT / I break down Kendra DeColo’s “I Pump Milk Like a Boss” as a source of inspiration for your own poem about caregiving.
write a love poem to your favorite time of day
POETRY PROMPT / I break down Dorianne Laux’s “I Never Wanted to Die” as a source of inspiration for you to write a love poem to your favorite time of day.
poetry prompt about climate crisis
POETRY PROMPT / I break down Dobby Gibson’s “Inside the Compulsion to Wonder Lurks the Will to Survive” as a source of inspiration for your own poem about how we’re responding (or not responding) to the climate crisis.