Marilyn Letts

Thanks to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompt! “Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that takes its inspiration from the life of a...

Thanks to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompt! " Music features heavily in human rituals and celebrations. We play music at parties; we play it...

Thanks to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompts! “ W.H. Auden’s “ Musée des Beaux Arts ” takes its inspiration from a very particular painting:...

Thank you to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompt. [I think?!]   “ Try your hand at a sonnet – or at least something “sonnet-shaped.” Think about...

Thank you to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompt: “In her poem, senzo , Evie Shockley recounts the experience of being at a live concert,...

Thank you to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompt:   “In her poem, Duet , Lisa Russ Spaar tells the story of two sisters making music together,...

Day 23 Feathered Performance   Thank you to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompt: “Humans might be the only species to compose music, but we’re...

Thank you to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompt: “In her poem, Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons , Diane Wakoski is far more grateful than I...

Thanks to Na/GloPoWriMo for today’s prompts: “ Sawako Nakayasu’s poem “ Improvisational Score ” is a rather surreal prose poem describing...

Thanks to Na/GloPoWriMo for today’s prompt (among other things) “to write a poem informed by musical phrasing or melody, that employs...

Prompt from NaPoWriMo: …" our daily prompt – optional as always. This one is inspired by Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s poem “ Song .” The word...

Thank you to the prompt from Na/GloPoWriMo:   “Today’s resource is a virtual visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum . … Like our...

Super interesting prompts from NaPoWriMo but today I didn’t even get to big ideas. Instead, another 5-7-5 day.   Haiku this is not since...

Fantastic prompts from Na/GloPoWriMo. Have some great ideas for future poems. Here's what I posted on NaPoWriMo just before the deadline:...

Thank you to Na/GloPoWriMo for providing Brother J.C.’s concert introduction and Jane Kenyon’s poem The Shirt . And for the following...

Thanks to Na/GloPoWriMo for : “ today’s (optional) prompt is inspired by a poem that’s an old favorite of mine, by Kay Ryan . Crustacean...

Thank you to Na/GloPoWriMo for today’s prompt:   “Donald Justice’s poem, “ There is a gold light in certain old paintings ,” plays with...

Here’s the Na/GloPoWriMo prompt, although it was WAY too ambitious for my day. All I tried to accomplish was reference to a myth and some...

Thanks for Na/GloPoWriMo’s prompt today: “ Take a look at Kyle Dargan’s “ Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn .” This poem is a loose villanelle...

Thanks to Na/GloPoWriMo for another great prompt and an introduction to another great poem.: “ Yesterday, we looked at a poem that used...