Not like that. Shame on you!
Consider three pieces of your life: three towns, three people, three favorite traditions, three rooms, three body parts, three hobbies, three hats. You could even go crazy and mix it all up, picking one piece from different “categories.” Write a single poem about all three. Try to work from concrete [...]

Here we are with the second “Get Your Poem On” post. From now until midnight one week from today, comments on this post will be open, so you can leave a permalink to your blog post for this week’s contribution.
We hope you took the time to write something based on the “eat, drink, write a [...]

When I was teaching an elementary poetry class a few years ago, the topic was food. I brought in all kinds of food for the kids to try and write about. We wrote poems about fruit, mostly, because I knew it was something they would like. Lovely, inspired poems about oranges, bananas, apples, strawberries were [...]

The results from Read Write Poll #1 are in! Of 38 voters: 45% say they write a poem at least once a week, 32% say they write poetry daily, 24% write when the mood strikes, and 0% say they don’t write poetry but love reading it.
(There must be some rounding going on with the [...]

Welcome to the first-ever Read Write Prompt. This week, we’ll focus on American Sentences. Some people don’t like the name, but please don’t be put off by it. It’s simply the name Allen Ginsberg chose for this poetry form, which is a single sentence of 17 syllables. You can read more about American Sentences at [...]

You found us! We’re very excited to introduce this new online poetry community, and we’re so happy that you are joining us for our inaugural post. Please feel free to poke around and look in the medicine cabinets and stuff (especially the about page, code of conduct and copyrights page). This will help you figure [...]