Today's prompt is very short. Write a poem about war (any type of war, although your poem must make clear what you are writing about)...

To Walt Whitman in Heaven by Betsy Sholl from her book Late Psalm Things that look good and aren't: high fashion, Manifest Destiny, limp...

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert...

Zero Gravity by Eric Gamalinda The dry basin of the moon must have held the bones of a race, radiant minerals, or something devoid of...

Today's prompt has two parts. BUT it only works if you do the first part completely before doing the second part. So promise me you will...

The Execution of Henry Wirz—November 10, 1865 by Daniel Nathan Terry published in Capturing the Dead, and can also be found on the Split...

I love looking through prompt books and web pages. I love taking generative poetry classes and workshops, and a silver lining to this...

Seconds in a Momentary Science by Kristina Martinez Another breath, deeper, undo these buttons to fit the stethoscope, calipers, forceps,...

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And...

Yep--I am a day late this week with the week's prompt! (And I am always a dollar short!) But it has a silver lining, as many mistakes do,...

What’s Going to Kill You by Jayne Marek published in Black Horse Review (January 2, 2021) How secretive it can be, swimming the long...

published in Ponder Review, Spring 2017, Volume 1, Issue 1 When We Became Trees by Mary Christine Kane We saw them first on our walk....