Lament for the Invisible Lesbians by Alison Binney published in Impossible Archetype, Issue 6 You hid yourselves so well, invisible ones,...

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...

Eurydice by Ocean Vuong published in The Nation (January 28, 2014) It’s more like the sound a doe makes when the arrowhead replaces the...

Pride by Diana Goetsch from In America (2017 Rattle Chapbook Prize Selection) https://www.rattle.com/pride-by-diana-goetsch/ for Paula...

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...

Untitled by Marilyn Hacker page 121 of her book, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons W.W. Norton and Company, 1986 You did say,...

As Planned by Frank O'Hara published in The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara edited by Donald Allen After the first glass of vodka you can...

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

Rejected Embroidery Projects by Triny Finlay published in The/tEmz/Review, Issue 22 I stitch whimsy-careful scenes for people who don’t...

Little Shields, in Starlight by Carl Phillips posted in Literary Hub, 2022 Maybe there’s no need for us to go anywhere more far than...

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...

Margaret’s Moon by Jackie Kay After she died, I swear the sky Had the most beautiful of all sunsets, A blush of pink, then red, a glass...

A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns O my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; O my luve's like the melodie That's...

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

from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 52 The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a...

One Reason I Like Opera by Marge Piercy from her book Colors Passing Through Us: Poems, 2004 (and here) In movies, you can tell the...

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...

Everything We Don’t Want Them to Know by Maria Mazziotti Gillan published in her 2010 book, What We Pass On At eleven, my granddaughter...

What She Was Wearing by Denver Butson published in his 2004 book, illegible address (Luquer Street Press) this is my suicide dress she...

My First Weeks by Sharon Olds Sometimes, when I wonder what I’m like, underneath, I think of my first two weeks, I was drenched with...