Here are all prompts posted during the 2025 National Poetry Month Poetry Prompt Challenge.
Submissions for poems written in response to these prompts opened are currently being accepted.
Send 1-2 previously unpublished poems inspired by any of the prompts in the body of an email to ZingaraPoet(at)gmail.com with the NAME OF THE PROMPT included in the subject line.
Please include a few sentences about your writing process (how you got from prompt to final draft) in your email, including any of the revision prompts that helped you along the way (if you used one). I want to know about why you made the choices you made. If even one line, image, or theme from your original draft appears in the final version, it qualifies for this challenge.
- April 1: Journal Mining (due Aug. 31, 2025)
- April 2: Protection (due Aug. 31, 2025)
- April 3: Beginnings (due Aug. 31, 2025)
- April 4: Whispers of Work (due Aug. 31, 2025)
- April 5: Absences Unfolded (due Aug. 31, 2025)
- April 6: Transformation (due Aug. 31, 2025)
- April 7: Humor in Public Spaces (due Sept. 30, 2025)
- April 8: Utterance (due Sept. 30, 2025)
- April 9: Contradictions (due Sept. 30, 2025)
- April 10: Game On (due Sept. 30, 2025)
- April 11: Collect, Remix, Repeat (due Sept. 30, 2025)
- April 12: Pro-prose-al (due Sept. 30, 2025)
- April 13: What You Leave Behind (due Oct. 31, 2025)
- April 14: The Thin Veil (due Oct. 31, 2025)
- April 15: Eyesore (due Oct. 31, 2025)
- April 16: Apocryphal (due Oct. 31, 2025)
- April 17: Seventeen Syllables (due Oct. 31, 2025)
- April 18: Elemental (due Oct. 31, 2025)
- April 19: Chance It (due Nov. 30, 2025)
- April 20: Temp-orality (due Nov. 30, 2025)
- April 21: Focus Prompt (due Nov. 30, 2025)
- April 22: Intangible Inheritance (due Nov. 30, 2025)
- April 23: By Any Other Name (due Nov. 30, 2025)
- April 24: Hands On (due Nov. 30, 2025)
- April 25: In Tune (due Dec. 31, 2025)
- April 26: Not the Kind You Flip (due Dec. 31, 2025)
- April 27: Top of the Morning (due Dec. 31, 2025)
- April 28: Child’s Play (due Dec. 31, 2025)
- April 29: Endings that Shape Us (due Dec. 31, 2025)
- April 30: Course and Method (due Dec. 31, 2025)
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