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Be sure to check back through the week and see what others have written in response to science fiction poetry, or any other idea: Read Write Poem!
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Well, you’re near the end of April, of National Poetry Month, of NaPoWriMo!
Sigh … in relief, remorse, resolution …
Some of you have practiced writing daily and some have posted a poem daily. Some have made up your own rules and kept them or broken them. Some (like me) found you couldn’t stay with daily writing [...]

What happens when you pour balsamic vinegar over extra-virgin olive oil? The oil rests on top of the vinegar in the cruet, but if you shake the contents, you create a delicious salad dressing.
Prompt
For your poem this week, try combining two elements that don’t seem to go together at first glance. Here’s the process:
• Think [...]

30 Poems in 30 Days. How has that challenge been for you? Let us know what you’re doing.
As you cast about for yet one more inspiration, be sure to use the random prompts or previous prompts and share any tricks you use to get through the rough spots.
Are you writing American Sentences, haiku or prose [...]

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’s prompt is aunt, simply because today is my favorite aunt’s birthday. I call her Aunt B (for Barbara), but she is also known as Babs, Barbie, Sissy, Mom, Mother, Grams, Grandma, Grandmother and Mrs. Linn.
Perhaps you have a favorite aunt (or uncle or cousin). But then, so many families are crazy (fun or [...]

So what did you hear this week? We want to know!
From now until midnight one week from today, comments on this post will be open, so you can leave a permalink (one per comment, please!) to your blog post for this week’s contribution.
We hope you took the time to write something based on snippets of overheard conversations , [...]

Here’s the long and short of it …
Can we really write thirty poems in thirty days? Yes, we can!
This past November I participated in NaBloPoMo, National Blog Posting Month. After joining Dana’s group, readwritepoem, I used the challenge of posting every day to write a poem a day. I was able to write thirty poems [...]

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“I’ve done nothing but cry all day. All day I’ve cried.” “It looks pretty gloomy for the first day of Spring.” “Then he took my cat outside.” “It’s perfect for a bachelor.” Random words. Anonymous opinions. Sad truths. Humorous observations. Snippets of other people’s conversation can serve as great inspiration for your writing. Actually, writing [...]

Next Tuesday is April Fool’s Day. (You’d think it would end March Madness- the State’s NCAA college basketball championship, but no, the final four is April 5 and the final game is April 7.)
April is National Poetry Month (in the US). Read Write Poem will be supporting you as you celebrate, in a variety of [...]