Here is a recap of prompts and poems from the last half of April. Hoping they were, and continue to be, a source of creative inspiration.
Watch for weekly revision exercises through the month of May beginning Monday, May 5
Submissions for poems written as a result of following any posted prompt or revision exercise opens on June 1.
April 17
Seventeen Syllables
Poems to Inspire
“January haiku” by Frank Higgins
“A Modern Sonnet” by Cleopatra Lim
April 18
Elemental
April 19
Chance It
April 20
Poems to Inspire
Temp-orality
“spring is a time of death” by J.C. Mari
April 21
Focus Prompt
Poem for Inspiration
“Emily Dickinson May Be Weary” by Rikki Santer
April 22
Intangible Inheritance
April 23
By Any Other Name
Poems to Inspire
“My Brother Julian’s Apple Core” by Alejandro Lucero
“Take the Apple” by Michelle Holland
April 24
Hands On
Poems to Inspire
“How to Baptize a Child in Philadelphia, PA” by Mike Zimmerman
“How My Father Learned English” by Juan Morales
“Woodworking Lessons” by Mike Zimmerman
April 25
In Tune
Poems to Inspire
“Living in Opryland” by Javy Awan
“Let it go on and on” by Kenneth Pobo
“Reverend Billy’s Boogie Woogie and Mom’s Gulbranson by Gianna Russo
April 26
Not the Kind You Flip
Poems to Inspire
“Blackbird” by Yvette R. Murray
“The Lark Ascended” by Wayne Lee
“Bird, Tired Bird” by Sue Blaustein
April 27
Top of the Morning
Poems to Inspire
Predictable Patterns by Laurinda Lind
April 28
Child’s Play
Poems to Inspire
“Directions Back to Childhood” by Judith Waller Carroll
“Elegy with Ice Cream” by Kathy Nelson
“When I Got My Ears Pierced” by Sophie Cohen
“On the Eve of Roberto Clemente’s Third Miracle” by Michael Brockley
April 29
Endings that Shape Us
Poems to Inspire
“Seas of Change” by Marc Janssen
“Manumission: A Codependent Romance” by KJ Hannah Greenberg
April 30
Course and Method
Poems to Inspire
“In Step With Desire” by Margaret Randall
“A Better Poem” by Thomas Zimmerman
“Eyes Fastened with Poems” by Lois Marie Harrod
“On the Occasion of 50 Years of Poems” by Alan Perry
“Listening To Poetry That I Don’t Understand” by John F. McMullen
The Zingara Project 
Always nice to connect.