Poetry Articles

Poetry Forms Challenge 2026: “Quadrille”

Longer than a fortune cookie, shorter than an epic poem – try your hand at the Quadrille poetry form.

Another Poem Fished Out of the Moat

Somebody said, “You get all the best spam!” Sure. But that doesn’t mean I want or need more of it. Nor does it mean any of this made it through the spam filter. No link backs for you, Spammers!

Poetry Forms Challenge 2026: “Found Poems”

If you can’t beat the spammers, feed them to your imagination!

Scala Decima Inversa

It’s harder to go down the up staircase! Almost harder than writing a double-acrostic, and probably for similar reasons.

Another Poem Fished Out of the Moat

Another Poem Fished Out of the Moat

Somebody said, “You get all the best spam!” Sure. But that doesn’t mean I want or need more of it. Nor does it mean any of this made it through the spam filter. No link backs for you, Spammers!

Feelin’ Spicy

Feelin’ Spicy

Poets responding to other poems is an old tradition – using the original poem as a prompt, a springboard, an invitation to a conversation.

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Jump Scare

Jump Scare

How is it that we know the tropes – they are, by definition, cliché – and yet, they can still make us feel something like fear or anticipation?

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Naani Naani November’s Here!

Naani Naani November’s Here!

Not doing NaNoWriMo these days, but maybe I can write 30 poems in a month. Or not. One of these is inspired by Robert Brewer’s 11/1/25 prompt for the PAD challenge; the other is a form I was challenged to try by Barbara Ehrentreu.

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