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 [...]

Tiel Aisha Ansari is reading at Powell’s, from her poetry published in VoiceCatcher 3, an anthology of Portland women writers’ work.
Nathan and Stacy have written a collaborative work they are reading at Larry’s Bar in Columbus, Ohio.
Monday night. November 17, 2008. Go. Listen. (And tell us if you are reading somewhere.)

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 [...]

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 [...]

We’re building a prompt for Read Write Poem, and we need your words to do it. Please email 10 words you love to info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org. The sooner the better, k?

Most formal poetry has rules about how words are arranged on the page. Sometimes they’re based on sound patterns, sometimes on stress patterns, sometimes on counting letters or syllables. These rules are often based on a way of arranging the content of poem, allowing the form to emphasize an idea or a style. While they [...]

This week’s Read Write Prompt is (completely and totally) collaborative! Yay. Now remember, if you don’t want to do it, that’s A-OK. But I really want you to do it, OK?
Here’s how it works:
Part 1. As soon as possible (meaning get on it right know if you can, but no pressure), take a poem of [...]