April 2022 Writing Prompt

As National Poetry Month winds to a close, take some time to get up close and personal with a poem you admire.

The power of the writing prompt lies in its ability to get us beyond the terrifying moment of “beginning.” Though it pays to develop a ritual for or ambivalence toward the difficulties of sitting down and getting started as a writer, writing prompts can soothe the sting. In this way, they give us “something to go on,” a framework or scaffolding on which…