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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 […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 8 – The Braveheart’s dance

Our featured resource today is this animated video of a talk given by the poet Jane Hirshfield on the art of the metaphor. Finally, our (optional) prompt for the day takes its inspiration from Laura Foley’s poem “Year End.” Today, we challenge you to write a poem that centers around an encounter or relationship between two people […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 7- Wish you were here

And last but not least, we’re taking it easy with today’s (optional) prompt. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem titled “Wish You Were Here” that takes its inspiration from the idea of a postcard. Consistent with the abbreviated format of a postcard, your poem should be short, and should play with […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 6- Will it kill you?

Our featured resource for the day is “A Poetry Channel” on YouTube, where you’ll find an eclectic array of poems being read with accompanying images and video. And now for our (optional) prompt. Today’s we’d like to challenge you to write a poem rooted in “weird wisdom,” by which we mean something objectively odd that […]

NaPoWriMo 2024, Day 5- Take 2 : Joy of the leaf, the little duckling and the child.

I did a second take on today's prompt which was to write a poem from three different things/beings point of view. Joy, said the leafIs water washing down my face and backallowing me to breathe in peace andmaking me look all glossy and newJoy, said the little ducklingIs following my mother and my siblings in […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 5 – Luck for the old man, the Hibiscus and the Lion

Our resource for the day is not a social media account, but a podcast that we’ve featured in past years (and is good enough to bear repeating): The Slowdown. You’ll find a poem here every day — you can listen online and read the transcript with the daily poem as well. Now, let’s get to our […]