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 [...]

Due to a technical difficulty, the wrong post auto-published this morning. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Now let’s all get our poems on!
How’d everybody do getting Gothic this week? Are we going to get some vampires, spirits of the night and drafty castles? I hope so!
Now’s the time to leave us a link to [...]

Ah, the word gothic. It has so many meanings. More than I had realized as a matter of fact, but the one at issue is: “Noting or pertaining to a style of literature characterized by a gloomy setting, grotesque, mysterious, or violent events, and an atmosphere of degeneration and decay.”
Not really suitable for spring (which [...]

Splash some water on my face. Pick me up off the floor. I am in shock over the last Read Write Poll! For the first time since I’ve been doing this dance on this very stage, the answers of my fellow Read Write Poemers have completely surprised me. For over a week, you’ve had a [...]

As poets, we all feel it’s important to get poetry (and poets) out into communities, do we not? What better way than a public poetry action? How will it work? It’s easy:
1. Write a short poem and print out one or more copies.
2. Take that copy/copies out in public and photograph it/them in public spaces.
3. [...]

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 [...]

This week’s Read Write Prompt started as a conversation in the comments over on my blog last week. Melissa Fondakowski of Poet with a Day Job said that she appreciated my working the term “glossolalia” into one of my poems and added that using the word “echolalia” in a poem would be even cooler.
I thought [...]

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 [...]