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NaPoWriMo 2024- Day 18- As I cooked dinner today, I thought…

Our resource for the day is the Best American Poetry blog, where you’ll find new and old poems, close readings, and essays/reviews not just of poetry, but dance, art, and more. And now for our (optional) prompt! Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem in which the speaker expresses the desire to be […]

NaPoWriMo 2024 : Day 17- Cause every little thing gonna be all right

Today’s daily resource is My Poetic Side, a website where you’ll find poems and biographies, a blog, poetry news (mostly UK-focused), and the ability to sign up and share poems. Last but not least, here’s our optional prompt for the day. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that is inspired by a […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 16- A morning walk

P.C. Anoop Negi Today, our daily resource is PoemShape, a blog where you’ll find poems, close readings, art, and interviews. Finally, here’s today’s (optional) prompt, taken from our 2016 archives. Today, we challenge you to write a poem in which you closely describe an object or place, and then end with a much more abstract line […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 15-Golden Chanterelles

Today’s daily resource is The Shakespeare & Company Interview, a podcast recorded on-site at the renowned Paris bookstore. While not all do, many of the episodes feature poets/poetry. And now for our prompt – optional, as always! Today, we’d like to encourage you to take a look at @StampsBot, and become inspired by the wide, wonderful, and […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 14 – What is the meaning of all that’s happening?

Our daily resource is biographyof.red, another Instagram account that regularly posts poetry, fragments from interviews with poets, and other poetry-minded tidbits. Today’s (optional) prompt asks you to write a poem of at least ten lines in which each line begins with the same word (e.g., “Because,” “Forget,” “Not,” “If”). This technique of beginning multiple lines with the […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 13- Chilled Beer

Today’s resource is the twitter account of the Wild and Precious Life reading series, where you’ll find a prompt every day for this month (if our own prompts don’t inspire you, or in case you just want to collect oodles of prompts to keep you going after April’s over). Finally, our optional prompt for the day […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 12- Ravan, the ten-headed king

Our resource for the day is the Poetry Foundation’s Poem-of-the-Day podcast, where – as you may have already surmised – there’s a new audio recording of a poem daily. And last but not least, our optional prompt. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that plays with the idea of a “tall tale.” […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 11- My thirty one-liners

Today’s resource is grieftolight, an Instagram account where you will find a wealth of poems.Finally, our optional prompt for the day honors the “ones” in the number 11. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write either a monostich, which is a one-line poem, or a poem made up of one-liner style jokes/sentiments. Need inspiration? […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 10 – Cabinet Member Loses Trousers

Our resource for the day is the YouTube channel of Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize, where you’ll find videos of past prize nominees as well as discussions of the art of translation. And now for our optional prompt! Ezra Pound famously said that “poetry is news that stays news.” While we don’t know about that, the news can […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 8 : An Ode to Barnie, the dinosaur

Today’s daily resource is Poem Today, a twitter account where you’ll typically find at least one poem every day, and usually more. Our prompt for today (optional, as always) takes its inspiration from Pablo Neruda, the Chilean-born poet and Nobel Prize Winner. While he is most famous in the English-speaking world for his collection Twenty Love Poems and […]