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Did you dig up some good dinosaur poems this week? Explore the nature of the monstrous?
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I can’t imagine I’m the only one here to have had a childhood fascination with dinosaurs, and when I got the chance earlier this [...]

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 [...]

Yes, the song. No hidden meaning there. For over thirty years the Eagles’ “Hotel California” has inspired and intrigued people the world over. It has been covered and translated and parodied and most people still have no idea what the song even means.
But what in the world has that to do with a poetry prompt?
On [...]

Here in upstate New York, summer officially started less than one week ago. Summer days stretch out before us, the sun shines for hours and the street lights come on later. Fireflies are back in business. The fireworks (the glittering, shining loud lights in the sky) started the day school got out and will no [...]

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 [...]

From now until midnight one week from today, comments on this post will be open. So you can leave a permalink to your blog post for this week’s contribution. (Possibly related to how you stretched your imagination this week - how was that date night with your imagination? - or any other poem or poem-like [...]

Are you on speaking terms with your imagination? How well do the two of you really communicate? When was the last time you, well, you know, “loved” your imagination?
Although you could argue that all writing involves imagination because you create something new, this prompt isn’t about business as usual. It isn’t about the status [...]

We live in a world of increasing specialization. Just about every little things has an entire field of knowledge dedicated to it, and each of those little fields has its own vocabulary.
Science uses a whole lot of Latin, psychology uses the word affect in a very strange way, and unless you happen to be a [...]

One of the things I love about this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere is how the trees are returning to their broader life. I often wonder what it would be like to be a tree, how different life would be — rooted in one place and naked in the winter (or to [...]