April Poetry Month

April 21:  Oulipo: Fibinacci: In a Fibonacci sequence, each term is the sum of the two terms immediately preceding it; typically with 1 as the first term: 1, 1, 2,…

April 20:   In his poem “The Waste Land,” T.S. Eliot famously declared that “April is the cruelest month.”  Write a poem where you explore what you think is the cruelest…

April 19:  When a skull is discovered where it doesn’t belong what happens? Are other bones found? Any artifacts of the victim(?) Found after a flood? Create a life for…

April 18:  Write a love poem to someone or something you dislike or even hate. You can use double entendre, contradiction, sarcasm, but it must be a love poem.  From…

April 17: Write a poem with each line representing a year of your life (you can do it in calendar years e.g. 1989, 1990, 1991 etc, or in ages e.g.…

April 16: Choose a poem you’ve written but aren’t satisfied with. Read it and try and figure out what you don’t like about it. Either pick out a line you…

April 15: Describe an orchard you might have played in as a kid, or a garden with fruit trees in it. Talk about the bees, birds, and animals that visit…

April 14:  A jackalope? The Loch Ness Monster? Dusti likes all things Bigfoot. Aliens? Ear worms? Demons? Pick a cyrtid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptids . Sometimes Wikipedia is your friend) and write a…

April 13:  Write a title that has at least ten words. Then write a poem with lines of only five syllables, five lines per stanza, and five stanzas. Use the…

April 12:   This is a selection of the Wikipedia Revolver page. This is a small part. Print the portion and, using black-out technique, slowly cross off words you think won’t…