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Poetry Prompt: Playground Games
Put away the books and come learn poetry on the playground. Pick your favorite game and join us!
Games Poetry Prompt: Sports
Celebrate athleticism and sports the way Pindar did. This week we stretch our muscles and write poetry about our favorite sport. It’s time to play!
Poetry Prompt: Word Games
This week’s prompt invites you to play word games. Join us as we learn how games can improve and grow our poetry.
Games: Playlist and Poetry Prompt
This month’s playlist and poetry prompt is all fun and games. Listen along, dust off your favorite board game, and join us!
The Literary Epic: Poetry Prompt
Come along on an exploration of the literary epic and find out why Virgil made us readers. Remember to pack your prompt-writing pencil!
Epic Poetry: The Simile Prompt
Join us for this week’s prompt as we explore the nature of simile and its use in epic poetry.
Epic Poetry: Invocation of the Muse Prompt
Seek and find your muse and bring her along to inspire a poem. What’s a muse? How do you invoke one like the Greeks did? Homer shows the way.
Epic Poetry: Playlist and Prompt
In our new Epic Poetry playlist, you’ll find songs inspired by many grand epics and songs that simply sound epic. Listen along and perhaps they’ll spur you to be bold, to take a risk, to dare.
Circus and Carnival Prompt: A Kids-Eye-View
This week, ignore any suggestions to “grow up.” Join us as we explore the circus & carnival with a kids-eye-view. Writing your poem in crayon is optional. After you share your poem with us, feel free to put it on your fridge.
Circus & Carnival Poetry and Photo Prompt: Run Away With the Circus
This week, our prompt encourages you to run away with the circus. You can be a lion tamer, an acrobat, anything! Write a poem about your new adventure.
Circus & Carnival Prompt: Circus Animals
Behold the spectacle of exotic animals from the four corners of the world. Join us under the big top for this week’s poetry prompt about circus animals.
Circus & Carnival Poetry Prompt: Deep Fried and On a Stick
This week’s Circus & Carnival poetry prompt celebrates a guilty pleasure: Carnival food. Where else can you write a poem about corn dogs?
Circus & Carnival: Playlist and Prompt
This month’s playlist and prompt features the excitement of the circus & carnival. Click play and join the wild ride. Admission is always free.
Ship, Sail, Boat: The Age of Sea Shanties Poetry Prompt
Step back to the age of sailing & learn about the folk style of sea shanties. Join us & write one of your own. Here’s an opportunity to complain about work!
Ship, Sail, Boat: Build a Boat of Poetry
This week, we explore a poem by T.S. Eliot prize-winner, Philip Gross, “The Boat Made of Poems.” Gather your tools & craft a boat of your poetry with us.
Ship, Sail, Boat: Ship Of the Old School Poetry & Photo Prompt
In this week’s poetry prompt, we take a closer look at the intricacies of boats and ships. Are they monuments of history or do they seem a bit more human?
Ship, Sail, Boat: Playlist & Prompt
Listen along with us to this month’s playlist. It features dozens of songs that will help you lose sight of the shore. Be sure to join us for a poetry prompt while we learn a little about structure through the poem, Sea Fever by John Masefield.
Shakespeare and Company: Playing the Fool Poetry Prompt
This week’s poetry prompt is for Fools. Put on your Jester hat and join us for some poetic and witty commentary in the style of the Shakespearean Fool.
Shakespeare & Company: Write Me a Melody Poetry Prompt
Come write with us for a ballad poetry prompt or a sonnet poetry prompt, with Shakespeare as our guide.