Today, after visiting two wineries, reading about some returning TV shows, listening to music, re-reading today's blog poem, and my...

Thanks to the New York Times, I just went down a rabbit hole of summer themes. (See the article that started this here--it's gifted, so...

Yesterday, my husband and I finally visited a place we have been meaning to go to since we moved to this area--Schreiner's Iris Gardens....

A few choices today for your prompt, and all are based on the poem on my blog today, "For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry" (from Jubilate...

If you were the poet David Shapiro, there was one day in which you posed for a photo that became symbolic and iconic and historic. The...

I think Cinco de Mayo is a lot like Saint Patrick's Day: it's bigger in American than it is in its origin country; people of all...

Do you remember the first movie you saw in a theater? The first movie date you had? How about the first DVD movie you bought? The movie...

Although most people know it as "Dogs Playing Poker," Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's 1903 painting is actually called A Friend in Need. It...

What are your favorite YA books from when you were young? Nancy Drew? Darius the Great Is Not Okay? The Poet X? Anne of Green Gables?...

First, please read Niina Pollari's stunning poem that is posted on my blog today. Then go buy her book. Then come back here and do this...

There are so many upcoming celestial events! A total solar eclipse on April 8. Saturn and Mars will appear very close together in the...

Of course you can! Just a smattering: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (science fiction novel) Will You Still Love...

Are you wishing to try a form poem but don't know where to start? Are sonnets too stuffy, villanelles too rhyme-y, and sestinas just too...

Today's poem on my blog was written in response to a book review. The book, The Letters of Robert Oppenheimer, contains the...

In today's blog poem, "A Voice Speaking Out," by Faye Turner-Johnson, the speaker begins by telling us, "I have a voice that roams while"...

Maybe it's because I posted a poem about submarine warfare. Or maybe because I always long for the ocean. It could be because I just...

"The Saturday Afternoon Blues" is one of my favorite (maybe even my favorite) Wanda Coleman poems, in large part because of the sounds in...

If you'd like to hear the song that goes along with today's prompt title (The Monkees' "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You"), click here....

Today's poem on my blog, Home on New Year's, by Dina Ben-Lev, is a great example of the cliche "When life gives you lemons, make...

Please read Karin Gottshall's beautiful poem, Soap, posted on my blog today. Then, write a poem in which candles in a window are one of the images. (Or a piece of prose or a piece of visual art. You know the drill.) Are the candles there for Christmas? Hanukkah? Kwanzaa? Any other holidays that use candles in their celebrations (there are a lot)? War? A city-wide black-out? Romance? For heat in an old cabin? Due to the power being turned off? To read surreptitiously? To signa