Read “Track 5: Summertime” by Jericho Brown, and then read this interview with him in the Nashville Review, and then write a persona poem that allows you to say something that you “otherwise wouldn’t be able to say with the lyric ‘I.’”

Read some prose poems, like “Be Drunk” by Charles Baudelaire or some by Charles Simic, and then write one. (You can do this prompt even if your name isn’t Charles.)

Read from “thirsty” by Dionne Brand, then write a poem about the city you live in.

Today is the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination forty-three years ago in Memphis, TN. Read “In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.” by June Jordan (also her “Poem about My Rights” or her “Apologies to All the People in Lebanon“), then think about a political figure or issue meaningful to you and write a [...]

Listen to the sound poem “A Love Poem for Gertrude Stein” by bp Nichol, then write a sound poem (the idea for this prompt is from Robert Lee Brewer).