30 Poems in 30 Days. How has that challenge been for you? Let us know what you’re doing.
As you cast about for yet one more inspiration, be sure to use the random prompts or previous prompts and share any tricks you use to get through the rough spots.
Are you writing American Sentences, haiku or prose [...]

Sorry this is late, folks! Deb set the the publish date wrong.
Did you write for someone else this week? Was it Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, or someone else? Let us know here, and put a link to your poem in the comments.
Perhaps some other act of free speech moved you. Tell us. Link us.
Was your inspiration [...]

Ahhh, April—that special time of year when our thoughts turn to spring, Opening Day in baseball and National Poetry Month in the U.S. So, how do you mark what is supposed to be “the cruelest month?” When you tell friends and family it is National Poetry Month, are your responses similar to this:
“National Poetry Month? [...]

This week we welcome one of our participants at Read Write Poem who will be joining our prompt team.
 
At fourteen Ren Powell read Helen Hayes’ admission of having misinterpreted: “And the Word was God”. Feeling a kinship with Hayes - an awe of the power of words - Ren swapped her teen-angst poems for playwrighting. [...]

Read Write Poem’s chain poem, which a few have donated a line towards, is here:

Aunt April
Flowered mesh captures hair floating above sun-glassed eyes
She sneaked the harsh Chinese cigarettes
Striking the match on the bottom of her shoe
Her cloyingly touch caused my brother to seethe
She changed her name and learned to swim
Rolled her hips and shimmied [...]

It’s post time at Read Write Poem, this week about aunts you have know, or others - familiar or unfamiliar.
Or maybe you wrote about something else entirely. We care less about what got you started than reading what you wrote. Actually, we do like to hear what got you started. We like all things poetry-related, [...]

I come from a long line of writers; I’ve only met a few of them. 
 
After three years of graduate school, this is one of the most significant things I learned.  Writers come from a long line of other writers, and the line stretches back as far as their reading habits.  I learned this lesson from [...]

This week’s prompt is aunt, simply because today is my favorite aunt’s birthday. I call her Aunt B (for Barbara), but she is also known as Babs, Barbie, Sissy, Mom, Mother, Grams, Grandma, Grandmother and Mrs. Linn.
Perhaps you have a favorite aunt (or uncle or cousin). But then, so many families are crazy (fun or [...]