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“
“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
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
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