Newest Poems
ars poetica 2 / Archibald MacLeish
Previous Prompts / Featured Poets
finding Poems / Naomi Shihab Nye
solstice / May Sarton and Mary Oliver
redefining / Linda Hasselstrom
animal companions / Linda McCarriston
birds / W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bishop and Edna St. Vincent Millay
fruit / Carl Phillips, Tom Hansen 2010
winter haiku / Issa, Buson and Basho
sons and daughters / W.S. Merwin
this was once / Jane Hirshfield
what sustains you / Thomas Lux
sonnenizio / Kim Addonizio 2009
laundry / Jane Kenyon & Robin Behn
prompt a day / 30 for November 2008
how not to write a poem / Lewis Carroll
it's not about you / Laura Kasischke and Richard Brautigan
a natural landscape / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
prose poem: mundane to erotic / Nin Andrews and Dorianne Laux
what you can not be / Molly Peacock and Billy Collins
the conversation of couples / Robert Hass & Brenda Hillman 2008
Rubaiyat / Rumi translated by Coleman Barks
didactic poems / Charles Harper Webb
heroes / Ron Koertge 2007
good advice gone bad / Diane Lockward
residual memory of place / Andrew Motion
magical thinking / Naomi Shihab Nye
giving form to death / John Updike
in the moment / Jane Hirshfield
Proustian memory / Billy Collins
calendar event / Günter Kunert
how memory works / Patricia Hampl
poetry alternatives / Grace Paley
guilt shop / Mark Hillringhouse
gladness / Percy Bysshe Shelley
risk, love, revelation / Dorianne Laux and William Stafford
a job done badly / Louis Jenkins
advice to poets / Madeline Tiger
war / Galway Kinnell and Katha Pollit
automatic writing / Andre Breton
social
or political issues / Carl Sandburg 2003
childhood Memory / Donald Justice
the way things work / Jorie Graham
in the style of / E.E. Cummings
flowers / Emily Dickinson & Donna Bamford
April
/ Edna Saint Vincent Millay & Mary Oliver 2002
characters / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
revisionist history / Jennifer Michael Hecht
wanting / Kim Addonizio & Jane Cooper
poem personified / Larry Levis
love defined / Yevgeny Yevtushenko 2001
writing workshops / William Matthews
metaphor deferred / Larissa Szporluk
one recalled / Laura Boss 2000
triolets / Frederick Morgan and Adelaide Crapsey
Emily / X.J. Kennedy & Emily Dickinson
first line generator 1999
imagined relationships / Denise Duhamel
history personal / Stanley Kunitz
death personified / Dorianne Laux
Zen mind / William Carlos Williams
scary movies / Kim Addonizio & Jim Richardson
questions and answers / Naomi Shihab Nye
the writing prompt / Langston Hughes
best of the century / T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost
because... the writer's life / Robert Hass & Brenda Hillman
my life today / Jane Hirshfield
epistolary poems (letters) / BJ Ward
poems from art / William Carlos Williams
starting with a quote / Jane Kenyon
to a fellow poet / Gerald Stern
from a photograph / Sharon Olds
spring distractions / Robert Frost
mythological allusion / Countee Cullen
titles that invite us / Maria Mazziotti Gillan 1999
personification / Charles Simic
marriage / Olena Kalytiak Davis
the extended metaphor / Cat Doty
in the classroom / Philip Levine
my father's love letters / Yusef Komunyakaa 1998
