Did everyone have fun with the American sentence? If you’re new to them I hope you keep writing them. They’re great in themselves and a great way to get into your “poetry mind.”
The poem we came up with, consisting of all our American sentences, is at the end of this post.
What do you have to [...]

In honor of Read Write Poem’s first birthday, for our collaborative prompt this week we’ll go back to the first ever Read Write Poem prompt, which was, in fact, collaborative.
Here’s how Dana started that prompt:
Welcome to the first-ever Read Write Prompt. This week, we’ll focus on American Sentences. Some people don’t like the name, but [...]

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 [...]

We put our words in, strung them together and now we get to see where it all ended up.
I can’t wait to read your poems. I’m also curious about your thoughts on the process. Was it fun? Difficult? Do you do this sort of thing all the time?
If you feel up to it, let us [...]

We’ve got our raw material from part 1 of read write prompt #48, now it’s time to poem. I really want to make it clear that what we have here is a very rough draft of something. Your work now is to make a poem out of it. I made a rough stanza form and [...]

Some of us might be new to the idea of writing poetry with others. The notion of more than one person writing a poem might seem strange or even in conflict with established views of what poetry is and how it’s made. Before we jump into the prompt, I’ll say a few things about collaboration.
When [...]

A few weeks ago Tom’s article inspired us (Christine and Deb) to ask you to help us write a rengu. Below is that result, so far. (The linked first word leads you to the contributor’s blog.)
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Hot pavements –
littered with
tired bees.
Sunshine on fresh grass
I am stuck inside
writing poetry.
A meandering of ants
to a forgotten popsicle.
Dry [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]