NaPoWriMo 2022

NaPoWriMo Day 6:  Universal Guidance

NaPoWriMo Day 6:  Universal Guidance

Here’s our optional prompt for the day. Many of us had to write “acrostic” poems in school. These are poems in which the first letter of each line spells a word as you go down the poem. For example, the first line of an acrostic poem that spells the word “ghost” would...

NaPoWriMo Day 5: A Zombie Affaire

NaPoWriMo Day 5: A Zombie Affaire

Prompt for today is to write a poem about a mythical person or creature doing something unusual – or at least something that seems unusual in relation to that person/creature. For example, what does Hercules do when he loses a sock in the dryer? If a mermaid wants to...

NaPoWriMo Day 4: Prompt Poetry

NaPoWriMo Day 4: Prompt Poetry

The prompt for Day 4 is to write a poem in the form of a poetry prompt 🙂 Interesting, isn't it? The poet Mathias Svalina has been writing surrealist prompt-poems for quite a while, posting them to Instagram. You can find examples here, and here, and here. Here's my...

NaPoWriMo Day 3: A Mystical Experience

NaPoWriMo Day 3: A Mystical Experience

NaPoWriMo Day 3: And now for our (optional) prompt. This one is a bit complex, so I saved it for a Sunday. It’s a Spanish form called a “glosa” – literally a poem that glosses, or explains, or in some way responds to another poem. The idea is to take a quatrain from a...

NaPoWriMo Day 2: A Rendezvous with Self

NaPoWriMo Day 2: A Rendezvous with Self

The prompt for Day 2 is to write a poem based on a word featured in a tweet from Haggard Hawks, an account devoted to obscure and interesting English words. Will you choose a word like “aprosexia,” which means “an inability to concentrate”? Or maybe something like...