"I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am."...

Mad Libs gave me and my brother a lot of silly fun as we sat in the backseat of the blue Plymouth Fury with my parents up front. More...

Anniversary Alert: Phillis Wheatley's book of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published on September 1, 1773....

Using the Ed Ochester poem posted today on my blog as inspiration, write a poem (or write some prose, or paint, or sculpt, or draw, or...

Today's posted poem is "Diary of a Carpenter Wasp" by Gary L. McDowell. His chapbook also includes poems about mosquitos and birds, and...

Yes, it has been done before, and not only by Jane Yolen! Lots of writers and visual artists have depicted what really happens after...

Yes, a sontina. It is a form of poetry that I invented. As far as I know, the poem I posted on my blog today, Xarpo, is the only sontina...

This week's prompt gives you a few choices, so it can be done by poets, prose writers, and visual artists of any kind! You can write a...

Taking a little break from the villanelle form in my blog this week, to bring you a short poem by Linda Pastan, and from which we will...

I am so happy with this prompt and I think everyone will have fun with it, even if you just turn it into a party game! Back in the 1990s,...

This week's writing prompt is simple; what you do with it can be as complex as you want to make it. Use the word/idea of freedom and go...

This week, we are using today's poem (Eurydice by Ocean Vuong) as our inspiration. The trick to this type of prompt is to make your piece...

Although it is a common trope in many types of literature and movies, taking a wrong turn is something everyone of us has done, and...

“Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of...

Jackie Kay's incredible poem, "Margaret's Moon," mentions the moon just once in her short poem (line four: "a hammock moon"). Most of her...

Walt Whitman has, among poetry in general, always been a comfort to me, and his poems have comforted many. More importantly, his poetry...

For today's prompt, choose one of the words from the list below and write about how it feels to be that or--even better--to have been...

I read so many wonderful poems when I went looking (in my collection of poems and poetry books and on online in journals), and am sorry I...

I admit it! I begin each day with Wordle, Quordle, and Hurdle, as well as the apps Red Herring and Word Search. And there are many other...

NEW BEGINNINGS ARE OFTEN DISGUISED AS PAINFUL ENDINGS--LAO TZU Although it has officially been spring for weeks, it has only felt like...