2025 April PAD Challenge: Prompts
Here’s the list (updated daily) of the 2025 April Poem-A-Day (PAD) Challenge poetry prompts for folks who want one post to check each day.
Since we're still fixing things up on the new website platform from the recent switch we did in the middle of March, I just want to make it super easy for folks to find the most recent prompts for the 2025 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. So I'm going to list them by day below.
Just click the link to view the complete post, prompt, example poem, comments, etc.
- Day 1: First Two-for-Tuesday prompt.
- Day 2: Write a "from where you're sitting" poem.
- Day 3: Write a short poem.
- Day 4: Write an unexpected mess poem.
- Day 5: Write an "After (blank)" poem.
- Day 6: Write a reaction poem.
- Day 7: Write a tense poem.
- Day 8: Second Two-for-Tuesday prompt.
- Day 9: Write an ekphrastic poem.
- Day 10: Write a number poem.
- Day 11: Write a nature poem.
- Day 12: Write a risky poem.
- Day 13: Write a "Full (blank)" poem.
- Day 14: Write a losing poem.
- Day 15: Third Two-for-Tuesday prompt.
- Day 16: Write a "something fantastic" poem.
- Day 17: Write a city poem.
- Day 18: Write a response poem.
- Day 19: Write a persona poem.
- Day 20: Write a rest poem.
- Day 21: Write a "(blank) Day" poem.
- Day 22: Fourth Two-for-Tuesday prompt.
Have fun poeming!
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Also, click here to check out more than 150 poetic forms (or as I like to call them "poetic games").
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
