Happy Sunday! I am giving you three choices for your prompt this week. You can choose one or mix and match, depending on how much of a...

Count Down by Robin Morgan Survival is the final offer that arrives at the eleventh hour just when pain to the tenth power would kill you...

Wildlife by Heather Treseler winner, 2021 WB Yeats Society Contest All strut and gibbering, wattles and caruncles, tom turkeys parade at...

Use today's poem, "The Fall of the House of Usher," by Reed Whittemore, as your inspiration for this week's prompt. This prompt has two...

published in A Geography of Poets, Edited by Edward Field The Fall of the House of Usher by Reed Whittemore It was a big boxy wreck of a...

published in Poetry, March 1980 I was born in Cologne. That word again: Cologne. I let my mouth fill with it as my mother did when the...

Ugh. I have a cold (which is why I am posting this prompt so late in the late). But having a cold led to my thinking of cold and hot,...

published in Simulacra, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Temptation of the Composer by Airea D. Matthews Oh Shepherd, our...

Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp by Cindy Williams Gutiérrez from The Small Claim of Bones, 2014 Softly, it always began softly....

No, this prompt does not involve The Box Tops' 1967 song, "The Letter" (but if you can work it in, go for it!). Rather, write a letter to...

published in The Paris Review, Issue 227, Winter 2018 Decency by Emily Jungmin Yoon When a man threw his fist into a wall next to my eye...

published in Kissing Dynamite Poetry, Issue 26, FEB 2021 His beard was stained straw, smoked by desert wind & lipped by sand. His...

This week, let's try to write a pure lyric poem. Put your speaker in a specific moment and then describe the scene. Focus on tangible...

Breaking Down in the South by Gail White It knocked me over to learn there’s no such thing as a nervous breakdown. My aunts and uncles...