The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Every April since its inception in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, National ...

April is National Poetry Month and a good time to consider beginning a poetry writing practice for yourself and/or your ...

Some poems come from words carefully collected over days and weeks, their placement in a sentence tried and tested, maybe ...

For this week's prompt, write a fresh start poem. Today is the first day of 2025, so the year is a clean slate. But you don't have to write a 2025 poem; fresh starts can be made anywhere and in many ...

Mahima Nagaraju Some poems come from words carefully collected over days and weeks, their placement in a sentence tried and ...

For this week's prompt, write an appraisal poem. Of course, people are used to concepts such as home appraisals and appraising jewelry. However, the poem could be a self-appraisal, or appraise ...