I don't always pull my prompts from the poem I posted, but when I do, it is a fairly blatant prompt. For this week's writing, imagine...

Imagining My Neighbor by Loretta Diane Walker published on Poem-a-Day, April 08, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets Now that night...

Sonnet to the Fifty-One Senators Who Voted Against the Women’s Health Protection Act by Joanne Durham published in Plum Tree Tavern,...

If you are using this week's prompt to write a prose piece (or create visual art) or form poetry does not excite you at this point in...

Even the Rain by Agha Shahid Ali from his book Call Me Ishmael Tonight (Norton, 2003) What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the...

What I learned by R. Erica Doyle published in The Rumpus, April 22, 2022 Why was there even An axe in the house there were thorns to...

I love buffets! I can try lots of different foods in small amounts. I don't have to decide between a garden salad and a Caesar salad--I...

Silver Falls by Melody Wilson published in Cleaver Magazine, 2021 We have driven east this bright afternoon, the two of us, young parents...

So Chinese Girl by Dorothy Chan published in The Cincinnati Review, 2018 Anyone who makes tasty food has to be a good person, because...

What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver by Geffrey Davis published in Revising the Storm (2014, BOA Editions) During the last 50 miles back...

Today's prompt was inspired by a poem I wrote recently. My father and I were driving together (no worries--I was the one driving!) and he...

February by Bill Christophersen published in Poetry, February 2002 The cold grows colder, even as the days grow longer, February's...

I love odes, as you can tell by the number of odes I have posted on this blog. I especially love odes like the one by Kevin Young that I...

Ode to the Midwest by Kevin Young published in Poetry, July/August 2007 The country I come from Is called the Midwest —Bob Dylan I...

History Lesson by Natasha Tretheway published in Domestic Work (2000, Graywolf Press) I am four in this photograph, standing on a wide...

How It Happened by Chelsea Rathburn published in New Ohio Review, 2011, republished at Verse Daily I blame that little village in Spain,...

We are going to use today's blog poem as the basis for this week's prompt; be sure to state after Chelsea Rathburn in between your title...

If a Plane Crashed Exactly on the U.S.-Canadian Border, in Which Country Would They Bury the Survivors? by Jeff Mock —for Margot...

Happy end of January, beginning of February week! Last May, I started Duolingo, a language learning app. There are many languages...

About Face by Alice Fulton published in her book, Sensual Math (1995) Because life's too short to blush, I keep my blood tucked in. I...