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Are you passionate about writing poetry? This is where you’ll find poetry prompts, solid tips on writing poetry, interviews with poets, and blog posts highlighting various poetic forms. Sit back, relax, and learn more about the craft of poetry!
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 17
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a waiting poem.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 16
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a city poem.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 15
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a blank story poem.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 14
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a "from where you're sitting" poem.
Tension in Poetry: The Hidden Art of Line-Writing
Writer and editor Matthew Daddona explains how to easily create tension in your poems and how that adds weight to your message.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 13
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a Lucky and/or Unlucky poem.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 12
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a six words poem.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 11
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a prime number poem.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 10
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a get blank poem.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 9
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a persona poem (for an inanimate object).
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 8
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a metaphor poem.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 7
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a villain poem.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 6
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a Change and/or Don't Change poem.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 5
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a The First Blank poem.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 4
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write an active poem.
James Crews: Art in Response to Negativity
Poet James Crews discusses the events that led him to edit the anthology How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope and why people need hope more than ever.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 3
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a communication poem.
Jessica Barksdale: On How Every Poem Is a Learning Experience
Author and poet Jessica Barksdale discusses how she decided which poems would be included in her latest collection, Grim Honey, and why drafting each poem was a learning experience.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 2
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a "what does the future hold" poem.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 1
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write an introduction poem.
2021 April PAD Challenge Countdown: T-minus 1
Poem along with the second ever April PAD Challenge Countdown in the 10 days leading up to the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a warm up poem.
Zadie Smith + Nick Laird: The WD Interview
Nick Laird and Zadie Smith talk about how teaching affects their writing, craft insights they’ve discovered, and how staying off Twitter has made them better writers in this November/December 2020 Writer's Digest interview.
2021 April PAD Challenge Countdown: T-minus 2
Poem along with the second ever April PAD Challenge Countdown in the 10 days leading up to the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write an almost blank poem.
2021 April PAD Challenge Countdown: T-minus 3
Poem along with the second ever April PAD Challenge Countdown in the 10 days leading up to the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a "spirit of the stairs" poem.