Every week Jane and I set each other a poetry challenge. This week we chose one from the Poets and Writers website. Our instructions were to: Go to a used clothing store and choose a piece of clothing that you are ... Keep in Shape"), it's pretty obvious that our poems were going to be very different! Feeling like a challenge yourself? Have a look at the P&W website and have a ...

... just wanted to remind everyone that there's only a week left to get your posts written for The Great American Local Poet Genealogy Challenge. In case you missed them, these are the rules 1. Find a poem by a local poet, famous or obscure, from the region one of your ancestors lived in. It can be about an historical event, a legend, a person, or even about ...

... to Tricia's Poetry Stretch over at the Miss Rumphius Effect this week.  The challenge was to write a ... lines:  Thoughts/not, might/night, howl/now, moon/soon, one/sun. The "wolf-throated chance" ... Night Thoughts Why not howl at the moon? Soon it will be sun-up -- who knows what happens after that? This might be it: Your one wolf-throated chance. You know, the sun never rises at ...

... hour home separately. I have a sneaky feeling Angie, who is doing this challenge as well, can easily brag that she has put no miles on her car these ... odometer (the trip one, which I started at zero just for this challenge, so I could report in the exact miles at the end of the week) and I was creeping ... extra (book club, knitting group, poetry collective, literary reading, etc.) thrown in. My car, ...

Last week Meg and I drove out to San Angelo, Texas. My friend Laurence Musgrove had invited me out to Angelo State to give a talk to a poetry class and conduct a blackout poetry workshop. The ... line was instructed to build off that anchor phrase We kept going until poems emerged The challenge, as always, was to get the students circling concrete nouns and verbs — words that ...

... Haiku Monday. I will be leaving it up to my readers for the post. In the next week write as many Haiku poems as you want. I will pick the best one and post it on Monday. All poems should be ... up if you really don't want them. I thought this would be a fun challenge and if you don't think so then you are a party killer. Have fun with your poetry and good luck. They do not have to be ...