NaPoWriMo Day 6: A Riveting Journey

NaPoWriMo Day 6: A Riveting Journey

NaPoWriMo Day 6 Prompt: Our prompt yesterday asked you to take inspiration from another poem, and today’s continues in the same vein. This prompt, which comes from Holly Lyn Walrath, is pretty simple. As she explains it here: “Go to a book you love. Find a short...
NaPoWriMo Day 4: Floating in the desert

NaPoWriMo Day 4: Floating in the desert

NaPoWriMo Day 4 Prompt: Poetry often takes us to strange places – to feelings and actions that are hard to express except through the medium of a poem. To the “liminal,” in other words – a place or sensation that exists at or on both sides of a boundary or threshold,...
NaPoWriMo Day 3: One grain of sand

NaPoWriMo Day 3: One grain of sand

NaPoWriMo Day 3 Prompt: Today, I’d like to challenge you to make a “Personal Universal Deck,” and then to write a poem using it. The idea of the “Personal Universal Deck” originated with the poet and playwright Michael McClure, who gave the project of creating such...