Adult Education
Poetry Prompt – April 10
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…
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April 9 – let’s lean more towards comedy for today and write a poem about a kiss that was incredibly bad, like the one that was too wet, or the one that was like kissing dead animals. Lean into it, make it funny and…
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April 8 – It’s April and there is always someone around who still has their Christmas decorations up. There are people in my building still have Christmas trees in their windows and I always smile at them. Write about the decorations, how you feel…
Read MorePoetry Prompt – April 7
April 7 – Use a favorite song or instrumental as inspiration for a poem. From the Muse Library: Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of A Sparrow by Noah Eli Gordon: “You can fairly hear the pinging of the world…
Read MorePoetry Prompt – April 6
April 6 – Make an insect the title of your poem and then write the poem. From The Muse Library: All Things Wild: Poems from the Appalachians by Judith K. Witherow. “All Things Wild is a collection of poetry…
Read MorePoetry Prompt – April 5
April 5 – City Whispers. What does the city sound like under the cars revving or backfiring, the sirens, the parties, the people. What is there? From The Muse library: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. “Whitman spent his…
Read MorePoetry Prompt – April 4
April 4 – Parsley in the cracks. Imagine the appearance of a parsley plant grown between a concrete sidewalk and a wooden fence. Write a poem about it. It can…
Read MorePoetry Prompt – April 3
April 3 – Write a piece about multiple iterations of the same thing. Think ‘water, steam, ice, humidity” or “milk, cream, butter, etc.” or bridges, trees, mountains and hill, and so on. Find one that speaks for you. Work…
Read MorePoetry Prompt – April 2
April 2 – Write a poem titled “I should have kissed you longer.” From the Muse Library: Madonna Anno Domini: Poems by Joshua Clover. “Jorie Graham claims Clover’s poetry as “a poetic manifesto…
Read MorePoetry Prompt – April 1
Welcome to The Muse’s 2026 NAPOWRIMO prompts and library selections. This year I have been exploring ‘found’ poetry in all of its techniques and plan to share those techniques with you…
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