National Poetry Month Limerick Challenge
Limerick Poetry Challenge Write a limerick (learn how to write one here) about a famous poet or about writing...
Poetry Challenge
Clever Couplets Poetry Challenge
Leave your endless odes at the door please! Sometimes all it takes is a couplet to hit the spot....
Nostalgic Poetry Challenge
This poetry challenge comes from poet Roy E. Peterson: From your past, write and provide us a poem about something...
Inspiring Muse Poetry Challenge
. This poetry challenge comes from poet Roy E. Peterson: Provide a poem about your inspiring Muse. If you name...
Poetry Challenge: Classic Poem and Response
. In this poetry challenge, poet Roy E. Peterson challenges you to post a classic poem and a poetic response...
Poetry Challenge: Anachro-Poem
. Challenge: Take a well-known figure from history or literature and insert him or her into a modern-day situation. Choose...
When Less Is More: A Poetry Challenge
. When Less Is More An SCP Poetry Challenge by James A. Tweedie In a recent email exchange with a...
Sonku Poetry Challenge: Write a Sonnet-Haiku
. Epic poet and poetry video maker Andrew Benson Brown created a bit of excitement with his invented sonnet-haiku or...
‘Jack and Jill’ Style Nursery Rhymes Challenge
. Poet Paul A. Freeman challenges you to write a nursery rhyme in the style of the Mother Goose classic...
The Man from Porlock Poetry Challenge
. One of England’s best-known poems, “Kubla Khan,” was written by Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Waking from an...
A Poem on ‘Nothing’ Poetry Challenge
. Poets create marvels of linguistic delights about anything and everything… but what about nothing? Can your Muse capture the...
Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge: Roadrunner in a Sprinkler During Texas Drought
. Phil S. Rogers captured these photos of a roadrunner seeking relief in his sprinkler during drought-like conditions in Texas....
Poem of Passion Challenge
. Scenes of passion in literature, on the stage, and on the silver screen, have captivated audiences for years. How...
World Poetry Day Limerick Poetry Challenge
. In celebration of World Poetry Day, write a limerick on the theme of World Poetry Day, poetry in general,...
Poetry Challenge: Equilateral Proverbs
Equilateral Proverbs: A Poetry Challenge by James A. Tweedie Construct a rhyming, rhythmic intelligible proverb or saying where the first...
2022 FIFA World Cup Poetry Challenge
. Write a poem about the 2022 FIFA World Cup happening now and post it in the comments section below....
Prose-That’s-Really-a-Sonnet Poetry Challenge
. Construct a convincing paragraph of well-written, coherent prose that also happens to be a properly composed Shakespearean sonnet. This...
Metrical Clerihew Poetry Challenge
. The clerihew is a relatively new poetry form introduced by Edmund Clerihew Bentley in 1905. It is usually a...
Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge: Fireplaces
. This photo comes to us from Joshua C. Frank of Texas. Write an ekphrastic poem based on it and...
Rhyme Two Random Words Poetry Challenge
. Your poem can be serious, silly, or something in-between. List the “random words” you chose as your poem’s title...
Poetry Challenge: Write a Classic Movie-Inspired Poem
. Write a poem that casts a fresh eye over a classic movie---any form, any length, any mood. This challenge...
Poetry Challenge: Write a Tetra-Pentameter Poem
Write a rhyming poem that works as either ten lines of tetrameter or eight lines of pentameter. Post it in...
Bedtime Prayer Poetry Challenge
. This challenge comes form poet James A. Tweedie: Perhaps the most familiar of all formal, English-language poems is the...
What Rhymes with Orange? Poetry Challenge
. Write a poem rhyming the word "orange" with something else. Post it in the comments below. This challenge comes...
Turn a Famous Poem into a Limerick: Poetry Challenge
. Choose a famous poem and write it in limerick form, putting the title of the original poem at the...
Poetry Challenge: A ‘Raven’-like Poem on the Death of Edgar Allan Poe
. Edgar Allan Poe was known for strange and mysterious tales, in poetry and prose. Perhaps fittingly, the circumstances surrounding...
Split Nursery Rhyme Poetry Challenge
. Split a line from a nursery rhyme and use the halves to open and close a poem. Post yours...
National Poetry Month Challenge: What Is Poetry?
April is National Poetry Month. On this occasion, take words about poetry from a famous poet, or anyone else you...
Poetry Challenge: Write a Sonnet in Iambic Monometer
. This challenge was conceived by Paul A. Freeman after reading a sonnet in iambic monometer by James A. Tweedie,...
Turn a Joke into a Poem—Poetry Challenge
Poet Susan Jarvis Bryant challenges her fellow poets to adapt a favorite joke into a poem with meter and rhyme....
Poetry Challenge: ‘My country used to be… ‘
New York poet Joe Tessitore challenges poets to begin a poem with these words: My country used to...
Homophonic Poetry Challenge
by Joe Tessitore and James A. Tweedie We are issuing a challenge to all poets to create poems that incorporate...
Thank you so much for your kind words and reminiscences, Paul! I am glad to hear "A Pot of Tea"…
1. Alone in the night, Gazing at the moon and stars, My heart seeks a light. 2. Alone in the…
MY FIRST HAIKU POEM is titled: "GRAND ENTRANCE" Toad cavorts the pond Spatters lotus floating pad Splatters his belly MY…
the gray autumn days/ the raindrops are similar / to other raindrops / this belated love/ late sunflower will remain…
after the spring rain — a snail crosses milky clouds on the puddle floor late autumn wind — an oak…
