2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 4
For the 2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of November before assembling a chapbook manuscript in the month of December. Day 4 is the first fill-in-the-blank title poem of the month.
Since it's our first Friday of the month, I just want to point out that weekends are the most frequent streak-breakers for these poem-a-day challenges. So stay vigilant on Saturday and Sunday!
For today's prompt, take the phrase "In the (blank)," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: "In the Wrong," "In the Light of Day," "In the Heat of the Moment," and/or "In the Following Example." Have fun poeming!
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at an In the Blank Poem:
“In the Nick of Time”
Always made me wonder a bit
about Nick and his relationship
with time. Was he fast? Slow?
Or is it just one of those things
I don't completely comprehend
and should look up someday,
perhaps on Wikipedia? I guess
I could Rob time, but that's me.
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.
