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 [...]

So how did you work with Holly’s prompt this week, where she encouraged us to reveal the many layers of ourselves, and work with other’s words in the process.
We look forward to reading what you came up with.
And, if you feel up to it, let us know how it went with a few (or [...]

Who’s ready for some visual stimulation? This is our first Read Write Image prompt, companion to our Read Write Word prompt that you may have worked on last week. We want this prompt to be as open as possible. What is your response to the image? What about this image really strikes you?
We want your [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to the new Read Write Poem! Do you like it? Are you surprised? Pleasantly, we hope! We’ve been busy — behind the scenes — reworking the template and mixing up Read Write Poem.
Why? We wanted to do a few things:

Pretty up the site with new clothes and a cute haircut. Isn’t it nice?
Mix things [...]