30 Poetry Prompts for the 2024 April PAD Challenge
Find all 30 poetry prompts for the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge in this post.
Find all 30 poetry prompts for the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge below. I will link each day back to the original post with a super concise prompt. Just click the link if you need more guidance or ideas on how to come at the prompt.
If you participated this year and would like to share your favorite poem from the month in the comments, please do.
Happy poeming!
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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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30 Poetry Prompts for the 2024 April PAD Challenge!
Day 1: Optimistic Poem
Day 2: Happy and/or Sad Poem
Day 3: Musical Act or Artist Poem
Day 4: Mistake Poem
Day 5: "Tell (blank)" Poem
Day 6: Minimum Poem
Day 7: Luck Poem
Day 8: Major Event Poem
Day 9: Love and/or Anti-Love Poem
Day 10: "(blank) Better" Poem
Day 16: Poetic Form and/or Anti-Poetic Form Poem
Day 17: "Not (blank)" Poem
Day 18: Pessimistic Poem
Day 19: Emotion Poem
Day 20: Six Words Poem (bear, collar, flair, hear, praise, ramble)
Day 21: Trope Poem
Day 22: Earth Poem
Day 23: "(blank) of the Heart" and/or "Heart of the (blank)" Poem
Day 24: Maximum Poem
Day 25: Homonym Poem
Day 26: Persona Poem
Day 27: Remix Poem
Day 28: Dead Poem
Day 29: "Until (blank)" Poem
Day 30: The End and/or Beginning Poem
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Write a poem every single day of the year with Robert Lee Brewer's Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming. After sharing more than a thousand prompts and prompting thousands of poems for more than a decade, Brewer picked 365 of his favorite poetry prompts here.
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.
