April Poetry Month

April 20 – Think about secondary characters in stories or novels, even in TV and movies, like Janice on Friends, or Sancho Panza of Don Quixote, or even Natasha or Boris on Bullwinkle. Write a 14-line poem to…

April 18 – create a found poem from the Declaration of Independence be it erasure, blackout, cut up, even a golden shovel, see if you can distill the essence of this document.  From the Muse Library: My…

April 17 – Write an ode about something you hate.  From the Muse library: Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner: Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the…

April 16 – “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” – G.K. Chesterton  How can you bring cheese into a poem?  From the Muse Library: Feed by Tommy Pico. Tommy Pico’s Feed…

April 15 – Here is a prompt that can be fun. Take one of your poems that isn’t working for you and, using Google translate, translate it through several different languages from all over the world…

April 14 – Rewrite a fairytale as a poem. Make it modern. Change it up. Maybe give a once damsel in distress a feminist approach, or the old woman in a shoe has no kids,…

April 13 – Open the book nearest to you. Now pick a number. Say you picked the number 12 – every 12 pages, find the 12th word and use that as the…

April 12 – Write a poem inspired by your favorite novel: either about the novel itself, or any general themes of it.   From the Muse Library: Borders by Mary Crow. “The poetry of Mary Crow…

April 11 – Google Poetry 1. Pick some random words, as few or as many as you want. Think of words you like, or open a book or dictionary to…

April 10 – Take a walk until you find a tree you identify with, then write a poem using the tree as a metaphor for yourself or your life.  From the Muse Library: Happiness, The…