Poetry 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 as we create beauty, emotion, and art together. These prompts are meant to get you creativity moving.  

April 1 – Write a piece about a chosen hero who is doomed to fail. 

From the Muse Library: Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 by Lucille Clifton “Brilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empower Lucille Clifton’s personal and artistic odyssey. Hers is poetry of birth, death, children, community, history, sexuality and spirituality, and she addresses these themes with passion, humor, anger and spiritual awe.” This quote wasn’t attributed