Monday Poetry Post: Your Prompt Attention

Be prepared!

Hi! The newsletter is on “spring break” to prep for National Poetry Writing Month. Please expect super-brief emails all week.

On April 1st, I will begin my quest to write 30 poems in 30 days. It’s what that ESPN series “30 for 30” is about¹.

You’re welcome to write along with me! To kickstart your writing, here are a few resources for prompts.

• Maya C. Popa, the Poetry Editor of Publishers Weekly, has an awesome Substack. Along with prompts and themed roundups of poems, she also publishes in-depth readings of great poets.

• I find about half the tools on this website extremely helpful, and about half of them are not for me. But! Along with things like a novel character sheet, there’s a list of 100 (brief) prompts.

• The Poetry Foundation has “learning prompts” which include a great variety of ideas and activities for varied skill levels.

• Every year, there’s a thing called “Inktober” where artists paint/draw/create an image based on a list of prompts. It’s NaPoWriMo for visual artists. But! When I’m really stuck I look at old Inktober lists and I just write about whatever I’m “assigned” that calendar day.

Excited to write with you all!

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