Find all 30 poetry prompts for the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge below. I will link each day back to the original post with a super concise prompt. Just click the link if you need more guidance or ideas on how to come at the prompt.
If you participated this year and would like to share your favorite poem from the month in the comments, please do.
Happy poeming!
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Play with poetic forms!
Poetic forms are fun poetic games, and this digital guide collects more than 100 poetic forms, including more established poetic forms (like sestinas and sonnets) and newer invented forms (like golden shovels and fibs).
Day 16: Poetic Form and/or Anti-Poetic Form Poem Day 17: “Not (blank)” Poem Day 18: Pessimistic Poem Day 19: Emotion Poem Day 20: Six Words Poem (bear, collar, flair, hear, praise, ramble)
Day 21: Trope Poem Day 22: Earth Poem Day 23: “(blank) of the Heart” and/or “Heart of the (blank)” Poem Day 24: Maximum Poem Day 25: Homonym Poem
Day 26: Persona Poem Day 27: Remix Poem Day 28: Dead Poem Day 29: “Until (blank)” Poem Day 30: The End and/or Beginning Poem
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Write a poem every single day of the year with Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming. After sharing more than a thousand prompts and prompting thousands of poems for more than a decade, Brewer picked 365 of his favorite poetry prompts here.