We hope you had fun working with Beth and Claudia’s words this week. I can’t wait to see what everyone came up with using their exciting and interesting combinations.

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For the new folks:

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For this week’s Read Write Word prompt, we’ve got two (count ‘em) participants to thank for their word donations. Both Beth and Claudia sent us some lovely words that we’ve happily lumped into a Wordle formation. You should thank them, by the way, because this week’s prompt has some creative and odd words for your poems.

So how does this prompt work? It’s easy. You can choose as many (or as few) of Beth and Claudia’s words to infuse into a new poem. Once you’re done, you can post a link to your poem in the comments here or wait until Thursday’s Get Your Poem On post to share your work.

If you’ve got some creative or odd words that you’d like to share (or some beautiful, haunting, or whimsical words), email us a list at info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org. We can always use new words for future prompts!

(And remember that the Read Write Word and Read Write Image are now part of the regular weekly lineup of prompts we’re sharing each Friday as opposed to being separate prompts shared in addition to the Friday prompts — hence the renaming/numbering in the title of this post.)

This Read Write Word post marks a special occasion. Contained in this lovely image is our 250th word that we’ve used in our prompts. That’s right, 250 words without any duplication. I think this speaks to the inventiveness of our participants, as well as the diversity of words available to us as poets. This week, Kathy helped bring us to this total. We really have participants like Kathy to thank for the bounty of words we’ve used.

To participate in this word prompt, all you need to do is incorporate as many words as you can into a new poem. (Don’t worry, we won’t count how many you use.) When you’re done, simply post a link to your poem in the comments for this post or for Thursday’s Get Your Poem On post.

If you think you’d like to help us reach 300, or heck, even 1,000, simply email us a list of your favorite words to info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.

It’s time again to revel in some donated words and make some poems out of them. This week’s words were given to us by Jill, with some extra ones thrown in for fun.

To play along, all you have to do is borrow some (or all) of these words and use them in a poem. Once you’re done, you can either post a link to it in the comments here or wait until Thursday’s Get Your Poem On post. That’s all there is.

If you’d like to donate some words of your own, simply email them to info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.

Today is not only a Get Your Poem On Thursday, it is the Last Day of April, the last day of National Poetry Month. It is the last day of NaPoWriMo!

Here is your chance to leave us link to your poem for today (if you have been NaPoWriMo-ing), or for the week (if you have been avoiding that whole scene). Did you listen this week? Have you been inspired by birdsong or traffic noise? Whatever you’ve heard and written about, now is the time to share it with your fellow participants!

Let us know. We’ll leave the light on this post for a week so you can comment all you want.

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Please take a few moments to read the the About page and our Copyrights page. If you have any questions about the project after reading through those pages, e-mail us at info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.