For the past couple years I've taken on the challenge of writing a poem a day in the month of April (National Poetry Writing Month).

Na/Glo/PoWri/Mo (National/Global Poetry Writing Month) is a website run by a generous poetry wizard named Maureen Thorson.  Each day she provides a prompt and poets around the world attempt to write a poem in response. 

 

The daily habit of writing poems and then reading and responding to others poems has been extremely generative for my writing life. And then there's the catnip of other people responding to my poems. 

I'll be posting my poems here daily. They're first drafts. Not all babies are beautiful, but a few of them have grown into lovely adolescent poems sashaying about in the world.