April in Calgary may mean more snowfall before we see daffodils, but creativity will be springing! For the last couple years I have accepted the challenge of National (Global) Poetry Writing Month to write a poem each day.

NaPoWriMo (National 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. It's like a worldwide recess time where we all run out to the playground and let our imaginations (hopefully) get the better of us.

The daily habit of writing poems, and then reading and responding to other poets, has been extremely generative for my writing life. An added bonus is the catnip of other people's response 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 from past years have grown into lovely adolescent poems sashaying about.