Super simple instructions for your prompt this week! Choose a holiday or a season. Write about that time period with a focus on the...

Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg I spot the hills With yellow balls in autumn. I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold...

The Survivor by Primo Levi Once more he sees his companions' faces Livid in the first faint light, Gray with cement dust, Nebulous in the...

You need to do two things before you start this prompt: 1. Read today's blog poem, "What Haunts Us" by Annie Phan 2. Listen to a song...

What Haunts Us by Annie Phan published in Rust & Moth, Autumn 2020 In the villages of my grandmother, they warn you of the child who...

Plums by Gillian Clarke When their time comes they fall without wind, without rain. They seep through the trees’ muslin in a slow...

To the Young Who Want to Die by Gwendolyn Brooks Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the...

This week's writing prompt takes its own inspiration from Gwendolyn Brooks and her poem (also posted on this blog today), "To the Young...

About Almonds and Ambergris by Lorna Goodison Atlanta Review, Spring/Summer 2019 issue There is a perfume rising off the sea today. A...

Think of, or--better yet--get ahold of something very soft. It could be a blanket, moss, your own hair, a feather, a cashmere scarf,...

Residual Memory of Mercy by Nicole Rollender published in typishly Everything is the hopesprung phantom of something else. I married that...

Rural Gothic by Despy Boutris published in Zócalo Public Square, April 16, 2021 Loneliness thick as the fields of wheat. Wheat I walk...

For this week's prompt, I'd like you to write a negative poem. I am not talking about the speaker's attitude, necessarily: the tone,...

On the Turning of the Year by Karen An-Hwei Lee published in Spoon River Poetry Review, Issue 43.2, Winter 2018 To witness five...