Here’s the prompt for today’s poem from POETRYisEVERYTHING: “A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.” ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko Welcome to Day 11 of the NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) challenge. One third of the challenge and poetry month is behind us now. If you are just getting started I hope you’ll set […]
“If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.” -Gail Sher My assignment today is to write an inappropriate poem. Keep it PG, Chris said, and, Don’t tell me you don’t know what I mean. Here’s my attempt. Told to write an inappropriate poem, I begin thinking about sex, and […]
POETRYisEVERTHING‘s prompt for day 9 is to write an Ekphrastic poem, a poem based on a painting or another art form. As Chris explains, the ekphrastic poem can be a response to a painting, or it can give a painting a voice. To read more, you might check out a handout that I found […]
I subscribe to AdviceToWriters, which emails me a quote every day. Here’s today’s: If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who will listen to me if I do? You’re a human being, with […]