NaPoWriMo Day 28: Today’s (optional) prompt is brought to us by the Emily Dickinson Museum. First, read this brief reminiscence of Emily Dickinson, written by her niece. And now, here is the prompt that the museum suggests: Martha Dickinson Bianchi’s description of...
NaPoWriMo Day 23: Today’s prompt (optional, as always) asks you to write a poem about a particular letter of the alphabet, or perhaps, the letters that form a short word. Doesn’t “S” look sneaky and snakelike? And “W” clearly doesn’t know where it’s going! Think about...
NaPoWriMo Day 22: Our (optional) prompt for the day asks to engage with different languages and cultures through the lens of proverbs and idiomatic phrases. Many different cultures have proverbs or phrases that have largely the same meaning, but are expressed in...
NaPoWriMo Day 10: Today’s prompt (optional, as always) is another one from the archives, first suggested to us by long-time Na/GloPoWriMo participant Vince Gotera. It’s the hay(na)ku). Created by the poet Eileen Tabios and named by Vince, the hay(na)ku is a variant on...
NaPoWriMo prompt for day 8 asks us to peruse the work of one or more of these twitter bots, and use a line or two, or a phrase or even a word that stands out, as the seed for our own poem The Sylvia Plath Bot, as you might expect, tweets snippets of...