NaPoWriMo:   today’s prompt (optional, as always). Music features heavily in human rituals and celebrations. We play music at parties; we pl...

NaPoWriMo:  today’s optional prompt. W.H. Auden’s “ Musée des Beaux Arts ” takes its inspiration from a very particular painting: Breughel’s...

NaPoWriMo:  Today we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that recounts an experience of your own in hearing live music, and tells how it...

NaPoWriMo:   Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own poem that focuses on birdsong. Need examples? Try A.E. Stallings’ “ Blackbi...

NaPoWriMo:   write a poem about something you’ve done – whether it’s music lessons, or playing soccer, crocheting, or fishing, or learning h...

NaPoWriMo:  here’s our daily (optional) prompt. Sawako Nakayasu’s poem “ Improvisational Score ” is a rather surreal prose poem describing a...

NaPoWriMo: write a poem informed by musical phrasing or melody, that employs some form of soundplay (rhyme, meter, assonance, alliteration)....

NaPoWriMo:  Take a look at Ellen Bass’s poem, “ You’re the Top .” Now, craft your own poem that recounts an experience of driving/riding and...

NaPoWriMo: ...n ow for our daily optional prompt. The surrealist painters Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington moved to Mexico during the h...

NaPoWriMo:   Today, try writing a poem that imposes a particular song on a place. Describe the interaction between the place and the music u...

NaPoWriMo:  now for our (optional) daily prompt. The MC5 was a 1960s rock band. If you’ve heard anything by them–and you likely have–it’s th...

NaPoWriMo:  Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem inspired by Wallace Stevens’ poem, “ Peter Quince at the Clavier .” It’s a com...