Villanelle for a Lesbian Mom by Robin Becker published in Harvard Magazine by Harvard Press https://harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/fil...

Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made...

Taking a little break from the villanelle form in my blog this week, to bring you a short poem by Linda Pastan, and from which we will...

A New Poet by Linda Pastan (published in Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins, and here) Finding a new poet is like finding a new...

For Her Villain by Grace Bauer (published in the anthology, Villanelles, edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali, 2012) The time...

On July 9, I posted a prompt that used sentences in languages other than English as a way to do Sound Translations to start a draft. I...

Have you read today's poem that I posted on this very blog? If not, get thee to it--Dylan Thomas' "Do not go gentle into that good night"...

Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of...

The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit (Poetry 180, Library of Congress website) A noun's a thing. A verb's the thing it does. An adjective is...

I am so happy with this prompt and I think everyone will have fun with it, even if you just turn it into a party game! Back in the 1990s,...

Recuerdo by Edna St.Vincent Millay We were very tired, we were very merry— We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare...

A Diver for the NYPD Talks to His Girlfriend by Richard Garcia (published in the anthology, Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the...

This week's writing prompt is simple; what you do with it can be as complex as you want to make it. Use the word/idea of freedom and go...

The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our...

Lament for the Invisible Lesbians by Alison Binney published in Impossible Archetype, Issue 6 You hid yourselves so well, invisible ones,...

This week, we are using today's poem (Eurydice by Ocean Vuong) as our inspiration. The trick to this type of prompt is to make your piece...

Eurydice by Ocean Vuong published in The Nation (January 28, 2014) It’s more like the sound a doe makes when the arrowhead replaces the...

Pride by Diana Goetsch from In America (2017 Rattle Chapbook Prize Selection) https://www.rattle.com/pride-by-diana-goetsch/ for Paula...

Although it is a common trope in many types of literature and movies, taking a wrong turn is something everyone of us has done, and...

Untitled by Marilyn Hacker page 121 of her book, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons W.W. Norton and Company, 1986 You did say,...