2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 15

Well, here we are: Half-way today (once we write our poems, that is).

For today’s prompt, write a monster poem. Monsters can be cryptids, kaijus, or mad scientists (because who is the bigger monster in Frankenstein, the monster or the doctor who created the monster?). Of course, monsters can also be a next door neighbor, possessed car, or man-eating shark. Have fun creating your monstrous poems today!

Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them. If you have a wild idea, follow it.

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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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“B-Movie Night”

Every Saturday night, we gather in the living room
and from a plastic cup choose a slip of paper with
the name of some random b-movie. Tonight, will it
be spiders, robots, or aliens? Maybe a killer tomato
or oozing blob. Often, bad production, worse acting,
but still it brings us together, and we find ways to
laugh our way through sound gaffs and dropped
plots, and we marvel at those unexpected moments
when a movie actually delights or surprises, and
it becomes a part of our everyday family language,
an inside joke that only we will ever understand.