Poetry Prompts for Any Day
Originally written for students as challenge assignments, these prompts now function as reminders of how to write a poem on any day. Take yourself to a place that you conceive as beautiful or sublime, somewhere that quiets you. Find your voice as it speaks in this atmosphere. Record what comes to you., what you see, feel, hear. What do you learn? Write only the things this quietest voice would say. Write a “History of ________” poem. Fill in the blank with a personal subject,
