National Poetry Month 2022: Poetry Prompts
This April, for National Poetry Month, we’ve asked Virginia and Virginia-affiliated poets to give us a poetry prompt that we can feature. Come back to look for a new writing prompt every day this month (and come back to it in our archives, anytime afterwards). Happy writing!
Poetry Prompts
01: Ancestors, Food, the Senses!, Deborah A. Miranda
02: Ode, KaNikki Jakarta
03: The Wordle Poem, Lucian Mattison
04: Married to a Nation, Nathan Richardson
05: What Comes into View, Douglas Powell
06: Martian Postcards, Henry Hart
07: Places, Questions, Lauren K. Alleyne
08: Ordinary, not Ordinary, Kindra McDonald
09: Digging Beneath the Headline, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
10: Making Connections, Sofi Starnes
11: Longings, Kelly Morse
12: Not Just the Blues, Hermine Pinson
13: One Sentence, Noah Renn
14: You, the Butterfly, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
15: 5 x 5, David Anthony Sam
16: Your Favorite, Remica Bingham-Risher
17: Ah, Time!, Robbie Ciara
18: So Many Ways to Worship, Charlotte Maleski
19: Use One, Get One Free Prompt!, Holly Karapetkova
20: Poem for Calling Ghosts, Julie Phillips Brown
21: Points of View, Nicole Tong
22: On Joy, Rebekah Coxwell
23: Poetry and Physics, Joanna Lee
24: Hiding, Eddie Dowe
25: We’ll Never Tire of Love, Beth Williams
26: Oh Forehead, Oh Eyelid, Oh Hip..., Libby Kurz
27: Pop Meal!, Matthew G. Moscato
28: Evidence of Life, Michael Khandelwal
29: In Their Own Voice, Tim Seibles
30: Dear Monster, Dear Minotaur, Luisa A. Igloria