When I started this blog in 2012, I had no long-term expectations for it. I simply wanted to provide prompts as a small service to other poets. Over the past 12 years, there have been 3...
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As this year comes to a close, I wish all of you the best blessings of the season— light, love, good health, and peace—now and throughout the coming year. May the...
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Dear Blog Readers, First I wish our Jewish friends a Hanukkah filled with light and peace, and I wish a blessed Advent season to our readers who observe it. This is the time ...
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(Me, Charlie's Wife Leni Fuhrman, Charles DeFanti) For our last prompt, I wrote about my seventh grade English teacher and the autumn poem to which she introduced me. I invited you to write...
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Many (many) years ago, when I was in 7th grade, we had two periods of English every day. One was for all the technical aspects of grammar, and the other was for literature. Diagramming sent...
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I’m happy to once again welcome Michael T. Young to the blog. Mike is an amazing poet who calls me his “poetry mom.” I’m proud to call him my “poetry son.” Mike’s third fu...
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I'm so happy to share with you a special guest blog written by Robin Rosen Chang, author of The Curator's Notes (Terrapin Books, 2021). Her poems appear in Michigan Quarterly Review, The...
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As summer stretches on, and the heat continues where I live, it's nice to have an easy prompt to relax with and to write from. Accordingly, I've culled some info from the Net about a form of...
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Here we are in the "dog days" of summer, and where I live, we're just beginning to move toward a respite from extremely humid, 95º+ days. I find myself looking forward to autumn! In weat...
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In looking back at some of the prompts from years ago, I came across this one (based on a Robert Frost poem) that I thought might be interesting to revisit during these hot July days. W...
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For this post, I'm very happy to introduce you to poet Yvonne Zipter. I first encountered Yvonne's poetry when I saw the cover of her book Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound and knew that...
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Hi Everyone. It’s been a while since I’ve posted regularly. An aged iMac (15 years old) has had a lot to do with that. Happily, I’m now working on a refurbished iMac that belonged to a ...
http://adelekenny.blogspot.com/2021/06/prompt-369-this-is-not-grand-theft.html
Established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month begins on April 1st and runs through April 30th. The largest literary celebration in the world, this month-long cel...
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With all the social distancing we currently practice because of the Covid pandemic, it's logical to assume that our forms of communication have become largely device-driven. This prompt is a ...
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February is the shortest month, and I thought it might be a good time to revisit a very short form of poetry (one that we’ve worked with before)—haiku. Haiku, despite its brevity, alw...
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During the last few decades, there’s been renewed interest in Surrealist poetry, and most recently, the genre has become more and more popular as our world is increasingly suspended among p...
http://adelekenny.blogspot.com/2021/01/prompt-366-surrealism-in-poetry.html
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. —T.S. Eliot Dear Blog Readers, I send you my ve...
This spring and summer, we had to learn a new vocabulary that included words such as pandemic, Covid, self-isolation, quarantine, and social distancing. Those and related terms remain in ou...
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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. — Meister Eckhart Thanksgiving will take place later this month and is a day ...
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When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween. —Author Unknown Today is Halloween, one of my favorite days of the year, and here in my place on the m...
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When we were children, wishes were part of our immediate reality, and believing that our wishes would come true was easy: “Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight; I wish I may, I...
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(Above Photos by Tom Clausen) A very dear friend of mine, vincent tripi (who always used the lower case when writing his own name) passed away on August 17th. I’d spoken to him on...
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This prompt was originally posted as Prompt #40, when the blog was fairly new, and I thought something like this would be interesting to revisit right now. I’ve changed it a bit and added ...
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We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, f...
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