2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 11

It's time for our second "Two-for-Tuesday" prompt of the month. As mentioned last Tuesday, you can pick one of two prompts to write your poem, or write a separate poem for each prompt, or combine the prompts to make your Frankenpoem. Your poem(s), your choice.

For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt:

Write a poetic form poem, and/or...
Write a anti-form poem.

If you need a little extra direction, think in terms of structures and forms in general (in addition to the poetic form angle). Also, click here to check out a list of more than 100 poetic forms, or check out a few of these popular (and shorter) forms:

Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.

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Writer's Digest is celebrating our 20th Annual Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards with new categories and prizes. We’re looking for your best poems of 32 lines or fewer or un-published chapbooks 25 pages or fewer. Any form of poetry is eligible including epic, free verse, odes, pantoums, sonnets, villanelles, and even haiku. This is the only Writer’s Digest competition exclusively for poets. Win cash and an article about you in the July/August issue of Writer’s Digest.

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(Note: This is completely separate of the November PAD Chapbook Challenge.)

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Here’s my attempt at a Poetic Form and/or Anti-Form Poem:

“To All Poems, Future and Past”

I don't know
what poem
I should write,

so, perhaps,
I should call
it a night;

I don't know
if I'd be
wrong or right.

(Note on my form today: I decided to write a tricube, which is a form that has 3 syllables per line, 3 lines per stanza, and 3 stanzas per poem.)

2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge

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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of Solving the World's Problems, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.

2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 11

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in November. Day 11 is to write a poetic form and/or anti-form poem.

Robert Lee Brewer

Here’s my attempt at a Poetic Form and/or Anti-Form Poem: