Were you inspired this week? Did you find or create your own version of dervishes and wine odes? Did the prompt move you in an unexpected way?
Tell us. Leave us a link in the comments below to your blog. Or leave several comments (if you have more than one link to share) if you were [...]

Oh, the mysterious, mystic Sufis! They’re sometimes called Dervishes. (I always thought of them dancing. Or whirling, really. But not all do.) While the devout Muslim shows his or her devotion to Allah by praying five times a day and leading a pure life, Sufi mystics (a branch of Shia) attempt to live their lives [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Did you mix and match this week? Did you try a new poetic form on, or try something outside your usual style? Let us know, and put a link to your poem in the comments.
Was your inspiration from something or somewhere else entirely? Tell us about it.
(We’re curious: Did you get to visit protestpoems.org this [...]

I’ve been working in Classical Arab forms. When I told a friend of mine, an Algerian poet, he looked at me as if I’d said I was planning build a Frankenstein from body parts stashed in my basement. When I told him I’d written a “ghazal” (books say it’s pronounced to rhyme with puzzle) he [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]