This week’s collaborative read write prompt is brought to you by Read Write Poem participant Holly, from Lost Kite. Thank you, Holly, for the prompt! If anyone else has prompt ideas, we’d love for you to share them. Simply email us at prompt (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.
I have been teaching the book Steppenwolf , by [...]

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How’d everybody do getting Gothic this week? Are we going to get some vampires, spirits of the night and drafty castles? I hope so!
Now’s the time to leave us a link to [...]

52 Ways of Looking at a Poem is based on the articles Ruth Padel wrote for the Independent on Sunday newspaper.
The idea behind the articles and the book is to encourage the reader to read poetry more closely, to pay more attention to both form and meaning. Fifty-two poems are chosen — one for each [...]

Maybe you want to try a rhymed poem. Maybe not, you say. Perhaps you’d rather finesse your work with an internal slant rhyme. Either way, here is a widget that puts a rhyming dictionary on your blog: Rhyme Dictionary Widget.
Here’s the WordPress version that takes you to Rhymebox.

Wordle! Wordle! Get your Wordle prompt right here. This Wordle uses words contributed by Rethabile Masilo. Thank you, Rethabile! (Click on the image to see it larger.)
Remember: Leave a link Thursday to your Read Write Word piece, to your Read Write Prompt piece, or both. Poem on!

Ouroboros will be accepting poetry submissions until November 10th. (You can link through to the submission guidelines by binking on their cover art in the “participant-run journals, zines and sites” section on the sidebar.)

An interview with John Ashbery can be found here. His advice to writers? “Just keep doing it.”

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Ah, the word gothic. It has so many meanings. More than I had realized as a matter of fact, but the one at issue is: “Noting or pertaining to a style of literature characterized by a gloomy setting, grotesque, mysterious, or violent events, and an atmosphere of degeneration and decay.”
Not really suitable for spring (which [...]

Did you have fun with this week’s prompt from Melissa Fondakowski of Poet with a Day Job? Did you take back language and help us look at it in a fresh way again? We want to know about how you handled “mission, echolalia.”
And of course, if you didn’t do this week’s Read Write Prompt, that’s [...]