PROMPTS
April 2 2020 Prompt
Today's prompt: pick a form from the glossary, and write about the strange juxtaposition of springtime (and all it's blooming happy glory), and living in lockdown during a pandemic. This might lend itself well to [...]
Five Word Semi-formal Prompt
Here are two versions of a simple prompt that unfolds into an experiment with one of the basic elements of poetic form: repetition. Johnny’s original prompt was deceptively straightforward sounding: take 5 words (in this [...]
Prompt for August 12, 2019
Write about something that's broken, and how to fix it.
Birdsong Prompt
Writing prompt by Poetics Online member Jimmy Fishhawk. If you’d like to share your results, or submit a prompt for us to post (with credit or without), let us know. =================== This is a time-sensitive [...]
Prompt: Riffing on Coincidence
So, lately I've become interested in three iterations of a word (one of them being a slight variation): Colon: a punctuation mark Colon: part of your large intestine Colonist/Colony: member of a colonizing expedition (i.e. [...]
Insta-Prompts!
We are now on instagram! User name is Poetics Online, although as soon as I'm not working from solely an iphone we'll connect it to here as well as automatically sharing the instagram posts here [...]