Apex

Just a quick note to thank everyone for participating in the 2025 Zingara Project Poem-A-Day challenge.

I’ve received much encouragement in your emails and appreciation for the prompts, and I’ve really enjoyed reconnecting with all of you. 

Below is a list of prompts posted so far this month for anyone wishing to take another look and for those who didn’t get a chance to see them the first time around. With each prompt, I include poems published on Zingara Poetry Review that I believe serve as apt examples or as inspiration, so check the list for your name.

You can join in anytime and write poems to as many or as few prompts as you like. April too busy? Write your poems in May and beyond.

Tuesday, April 1

Journal Mining Prompt

“How I Arrived Here” by Karen Neuberg

Wednesday, April 2

Protection Prompt“

Because I Like to Make My Mind Pretty the Way We’re Told to Make our Bodies Pretty, I Work at Thinking Beautiful Things” by Rebecca Macijeski,

“School Bus” by Michael Chin

“Protection” by F.I. Goldhaber

Thursday, April 3

Beginnings Prompt

Friday, April 4

Whispers of Work: A Lament for Extinct Professions

“Barnwork We Didn’t Talk Much About” by Charles A. Swanson

“Stay at Home Mom” by  Sabina M. Säfsten

“Fugitives” by Stephen Mead

Saturday, April 5

Absences Unfolded

“What We Leave Behind” by Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb

“Song of Sorrow” by Jeremy Garnett

“My Sister’s Baby Blanket” by Alejandro Lucero

“Absence by Inference” by Duane L. Herrmann

Sunday, April 6

Transformation

“The Ugliest Girl in Christendom Goes to the Gynecologist” by Camille-Yvette Welsch

“Ugliness came up” by Kitty Jospé

“City of Bread” by Marc Janssen

Monday, April 7

Humor in Public Spaces

“Permanence” by Denise Duhamel Dance in a Drugstore by Anne Whitehouse

Tuesday, April 8

Utterance

“Ambidextrous” by Denise Low

Wednesday, April 9

Contradictions

“What is Lost is Not Lost” by Peter Mladinic

Thursday, April 10

Game On

Friday, April 11

Collect, Remix, Repeat

Saturday, April 12

Prose

Things to Be Grateful for During the American Winter by Michael Brockley

Sunday, April 13

What You Leave Behind

Monday, April 14

The Thin Veil

“Where the Dead Go” by Denise Low

“Do the Dead See?” by John Brugaletta

“Alternate Life Number Two” by Jeanne DeLarm-Neri

Tuesday, April 15

Eyesore

“Ugliness Came Up” by Kitty Jospé,

Wednesday, April 16

Apocryphal

“The Parable of the Mustard Seed, the Chanteuse and Wild Rice” by Libby Bernardine

“In My Story” by Chella Courington

“My Stepmother, Having Returned to This Earth, Becomes Hannya” by Tara McDaniel

Submissions for poems written from these prompts open on June 1