Poetry Prompts
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Writing a One-Sentence Poem
Depending on your constitution, you either think grammar is sexy or grammar is annoying to think about. In…
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Writing Poems About Dreams
Poetry’s capacity for experimentation makes it incredibly useful for exploring dreams. A poem’s logic is a dream’s logic:…
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First Lines in Poetry
How do you start a poem? Where do first lines in poetry come from? This prompt guides you…
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Image Without Interpretation
Freewrite Make a list of images that represent the previous twelve months of your life. Resist the urge…
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Tell Me How You Really Feel!
Freewrite Think of a context or setting in your life in which you are forced not to speak…
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On Green and Gilded Leaves: Nature Poetry
Freewrite Look out your window or take a walk. What’s happening in nature where you are right now?…
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Alienation in Poetry
Freewrite What do you feel exiled from? In what ways do you feel at odds with modern life?…
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Monster Poetry
Freewrite In what ways have you been made to feel monstrous? Is this monstrosity tied somehow to your…
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What Would It Be Like…?
Freewrite Pick an object of careful study in your life. Something you know a lot about, or pay…
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Title as Entrypoint
Freewrite In your journal, respond to each of the following short prompts in 1-2 minute bursts. There are…
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Dialogue in Poetry
Freewrite Think of a question or conflict you are having with yourself lately. Something you are unable to…
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Haiku Prompts: Writing Japanese Short-Forms
This poetry prompt focuses on short-form Japanese poems: haiku and its variations. Unlike most of our prompts, which…
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Mundane Wisdom
Freewrite The point of freewriting is to simply get your thoughts on the page. So do not try…
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Starting from Scratch
Freewrite The point of freewriting is to simply get your thoughts on the page. So do not try…
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Writing Speculative Poetry
Freewrite The point of freewriting is to simply get your thoughts on the page. So do not try…
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Accidents of Language
Freewrite With this freewrite, as well as all freewrites, do not put any pressure on yourself to be…
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Imagery and Imagism
Freewrite With this freewrite, as well as all freewrites, do not put any pressure on yourself to be…
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Writing the List Poem
Freewrite With this freewrite, as well as all freewrites, do not put any pressure on yourself to be…
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Poem as Conversation
Freewrite With this freewrite, as well as all freewrites, do not put any pressure on yourself to be…
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Ars Poetica
Freewrite With this freewrite, as well as all freewrites, do not put any pressure on yourself to be…
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Ekphrastic Poetry
Freewrite With this freewrite, as well as all freewrites, do not put any pressure on yourself to be…
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Embodied Poetry
Freewrite With this freewrite, as well as all freewrites, do not put any pressure on yourself to be…
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Erasures and Discoveries
Before You Write… Normally, I have you do a freewrite at the start of this newsletter. Today we’ll…
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Prose Poetry Prompt
Freewrite With this freewrite, as well as all freewrites, do not put any pressure on yourself to be…
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Fragments
Freewrite With this freewrite, as well as all freewrites, do not put any pressure on yourself to be…
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The Simple Truth: Writing Short Poems
Freewrite With this freewrite, as well as all freewrites, do not put any pressure on yourself to be…
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The Limits of Language
Freewrite With this freewrite, as well as all freewrites, do not put any pressure on yourself to be…
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Sonnet Poems
Freewrite With this freewrite, as well as all freewrites, do not put any pressure on yourself to be…
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Hypotheses
Freewrite With this freewrite, as well as all freewrites, do not put any pressure on yourself to be…
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Epistolary Poetry
Freewrite With this freewrite, as well as all freewrites, do not put any pressure on yourself to be…
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