Today's prompt asks you to write a poem inspired by an interdimensional sunrise or sunset.
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Today's prompt asks you to write a poem inspired by a speculative hair salon or barbershop.
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Today's prompt asks you to write a poem inspired by a sentient robot or its creator.
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Today's prompt asks you write a poem inspired by a book or library from the far future or recent past.
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Thank you again for this reminder and your initial call-in. My writing will now be housed on GrassrootsThinking.com.
Today's prompt asks you to write a poem inspired by or set in a futuristic tattoo parlor.
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Today's prompt asks you to write a poem inspired by shape-shifting. If you'd like, try using the Skinny form.
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Today's prompt asks you to write an elegy for a Conjure Woman, Root Doctor, or Medicine Man.
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Write a poem based on an urban legend unique to your location. You may invent an urban legend if needed. Happy National Poetry Month!
Today's prompt asks you to write a poem inspired by eco-horror.
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Today's prompt asks you to write an ekphrastic poem inspired by speculative art. Happy National Poetry Month
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Today's prompt takes us to the sea. Write a list poem about the items on a mermaid's grocery list.
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For today's prompt, write a spell, prayer, or chant. As always, lean into the speculative. Call on the ethereal, the spectral, & the illusory.
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Today's prompt asks you to write a poem about a speculative quest. Who is your central character? Who are their sidekicks? Where are they headed? What are they after? Happy National Poetry Month!
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Whether it's flowers that hold electricity in their petals or schools of fish illuminated by iridescent stars, let your imagination carry you.
Shout out to @morleyxoxo for another beautiful prompt.
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Day Two
What's on the menu at a feast on Jupiter? Who's invited? Who are your servers? What is the restaurant's decor? Invent your own foods. Create a new star system. Let your imagination soar.
Happy National Poetry Month!
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It's such an honor to simply be nominated! Congrats to the other nominees!
Can't believe it's just two months until release for Keynan Masters and the Remixed Monster!
The follow up to my debut fantasy MG promises to deal with that cliffhanger that made folks so mad 🤣
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Coming to America
Issa tie btw Living Single and A Different World for me.
Aretha Franklin
Salt, pepper, cheese
if you're looking for GFMs to donate to the working-class people of historic Altadena who lost their homes, this is for a Latino family with deep roots in the community - a kind couple who welcomed me into their home with open arms in the past.
Their total loss included German's workspace & tools.
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my heart broke watching Pasadena, Octavia Butler's hometown, where her middle school is named for her, burn. 5 schools have been damaged.
"Octavia knew"—so did Mike Davis—from studying history. denialism and targeting libraries got us here. what will we do?
