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Send 1-2 previously unpublished poems inspired by any of the prompts in the body of an email (please no attachments) to ZingaraPoet(at)gmail.com with the NAME OF THE PROMPT included in the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
- April 2: Protection
- April 3: Beginnings
- April 4: Whispers of Work
- April 5: Absences Unfolded
- April 6: Transformation
- April 7: Humor in Public Spaces
- April 8: Utterance
- April 9: Contradictions
- April 10: Game On
- April 11: Collect, Remix, Repeat
- April 12: Pro-prose-al
- April 13: What You Leave Behind
- April 14: The Thin Veil
- April 15: Eyesore
- April 16: Apocryphal
- April 17: Seventeen Syllables
- April 18: Elemental
- April 19: Chance It
- April 20: Temp-orality
- April 21: Focus Prompt
- April 22: Intangible Inheritance
- April 23: By Any Other Name
- April 24: Hands On
- April 25: In Tune
- April 26: Not the Kind You Flip
- April 27: Top of the Morning
- April 28: Child’s Play
- April 29: Endings that Shape Us
- April 30: Course and Method
Revision Prompts
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