This week’s Read Write Prompt is (completely and totally) collaborative! Yay. Now remember, if you don’t want to do it, that’s A-OK. But I really want you to do it, OK?
Here’s how it works:
Part 1. As soon as possible (meaning get on it right know if you can, but no pressure), take a poem of [...]

Were you in the moment to write this week’s poem? Whether you wrote haiku, tanka or anything else, in the moment or not, leave a link here to your blog and your poem so we can all read it.
From now until midnight one week from today, comments on this post are open. And check [...]

This week we bring you more in the collaborative spirit. The hosts of red Ravine, ybonesy and QuoinMonkey, invite you into their writing practice.
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Almost exactly four years ago, in the summer of 2004, I met my blog partner. We were both attending a silent retreat with Natalie Goldberg in Taos at the Mabel [...]

The world can sometimes seem so full of distractions that we don’t notice what is around us. This week’s prompt offers an opportunity to sit still and focus, to be in the moment and to use that as inspiration for writing poetry.
Either sit in your usual writing place, focus on what is around you there [...]

Carolee is on vacation for a couple of weeks. While we will miss her terribly, it does give us a chance to take over the poll dance and write something having to do with, you guessed it: collaboration. (Smell a conspiracy? Nope. Carolee really is on vacation, although she is here in spirit. And she [...]

Did you write something personal this week, or something politically-personal? Is there a month that pulled at you? Let us know, here. Leave a link to your blog and your poem. And tell us about your week, your month.
Did/do you watch the Olympics? Did you read about Shi Tao? Did you read “June”? Did you [...]

I am a sucker for memoirs.
For me, the experience is similar to reading poetry. I can catch narrators at their most vulnerable and open, when pain or circumstance propels them to craft an indelible image, or in the case of memoir, narrative. When poets publish memoirs, I find myself comparing their subject matter between two [...]

The Olympics begin in two days.
China’s central government in Beijing, despite its pledges and promises to be open to media and the Internet, has agreed to allow free access for only “some” Internet domains. And Tienanmen Square has once again become a political staging ground as people protest their forced dislocation to make way for [...]

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, something smelly, or even stinky. Or anything else.
Be sure to check back through the week and see what others have written: Read Write Poem!
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Newsy: [...]