To follow this writing prompt in the strictest sense, define four in 4 different ways. If you would like more inspiration, Google Four...

Seventeen Funerals by Richard Blanco Poetry Foundation Seventeen suns rising in seventeen bedroom windows. Thirty-four eyes blooming open...

Nostalgia for a House in Turda, Romania by Gabriela Suarez published in Sliver of Stone, Issue 1, 2010 I rest my cheek on the peeling...

Please read today's posted poem, Séance, before trying this prompt or reading on. {little dance while I wait for you to read Séance}...

Séance by Brennan Bestwick published in Thrush, September 2016 A round of robins carries the drowned boys up into the cedars. They drape...

Work by Robert King published in Rattle, Summer 2008 The workmen over and above the fence fit bricks, lift mortar, slap it accurately in...

I love art, but I am no art historian, critic, curator, or expert. I learn new things about art all the time, and it pleases me no end....

What Is Love If Not Rot? by Jane Wong online at the Seattle Public Library Seattle Writes web site I’ve been watching videos of rotting...

The saint takes the monster to church & the monster catches a cold by Mary Ann Clark published in The Scores Here is a body. There are...

For this week's prompt, you are getting your poem's first line. I am using a calendar I have for this one. Look for your birthday month;...

Rain for Days by Diane Holland published in Crab Orchard Review And the sky closed, but now the TV weather radar screen shows the few...

Gaudy by Cassy Dorff published in Rust+Moth, Winter 2021 The bird book called him America’s most gaudy bird. Some said the king cakes in...

Today is May Day, and there is a lot to unpack with this holiday. First, it is often celebrated as the unofficial start of spring....

May and the Poets by Leigh Hunt There is May in books forever; May will part from Spenser never; May's in Milton, May's in Prior, May's...