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Poem-a-Day - Revisiting Summer Songs
Don’t let summer slip away without writing a new poem. Summer Songs is a series of generative prompts inspired by Pulitzer Prize winner and Academy Chancellor Diane Seuss’s selections from the Poets.org archive.

As you turn the page toward a new season, spend some well-earned time sharpening your writing tools and refining your poetic sensibility.

Want to keep this going into the fall and beyond? Become a member for access to exclusive writing prompts from today’s most exciting voices year-round. Join today.

Your assignments: 
  • Prompt 1: “The image reigns, here.”
    From “Lines Written During My Second Pandemic” by Eduardo C. Corral.
     
  • Prompt 2: “Begin with: ______ used to say.”
    From “Silence” by Marianne Moore.
     
  • Prompt 3: “Aim for an unexpected crossroads of emotion.”
    From “the sonnet-ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks.
     
  • Prompt 4: “Extra credit if you ponder the ponderous imponderable.”
    From “Ponderable” by Lyn Hejinian.
Start writing!
Summer Songs is part of the Poetry Coalition’s slate of programs in the spring and summer that reflect the transformative impact poetry has on individual readers and communities across the nation and is made possible with support from the Mellon Foundation. Learn more about the Poetry Coalition’s season of programs here.
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