2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 8
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 8 features our second Two-for-Tuesday prompt.
Just like that, we're starting week number two. And it's another Two-for-Tuesday prompt!
For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt:
- Write a form poem, and/or...
- Write an anti-form poem.
If you need some form ideas, here's a list of poetic forms. If you'd like an additional subject to guide your poeming, write a direction poem (whether you're thinking about directions in a travel sense or as a list of objectives to complete--or both!).
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Play with poetic forms!
Poetic forms are fun poetic games, and this digital guide collects more than 100 poetic forms, including more established poetic forms (like sestinas and sonnets) and newer invented forms (like golden shovels and fibs).
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Here’s my attempt at a Form and/or Anti-Form Poem:
“juxtaposition”
rainbows develop
wherever
there is sun and rain
(For my example, I chose to write a Kelly lune.)
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.
