Celebrate National Poetry Month with curated poetry prompts by Head Librarian and poet, Charles Rhodes. All April long, enjoy his inspiring prompts, explore his recommended poetry book from The Muse Library, and take 50% off all spring poetry classes at The Muse Writers Center.
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…