2020 Poetry Prompts

A poetry prompt on color, using blue and orange as examples, from Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

A simple ekphrastic poetry prompt from Robert B. Shaw, with an example from another WTP writer Susan Tepper.

WTP-featured poet Sue D. Burton challenges readers to write an ode to something that has been lost…or, something that has been recovered.

A poetry prompt by Elizabeth Bradfield harnesses the power of repetition in a poet’s practice.

Ellen Doré Watson offers a series of poem “starters” for generating the raw material for new poems, inspired by the poem “Three Girls, One of Them a Coward Girl” by Aracelis Girmay.

Nathan McClain asks his writing students to introduce themselves via the poetic method of repetition known as anaphora, with a repeated phrase of their own choosing.

Lee Briccetti challenges poets to seven days of exploring and writing haikus, inspired by a poem from Lorine Niedecker.