PART III

Who Said You Couldn’t Say That?: Twenty-Five Poetry-Writing Suggestions in Twenty-One Short Chapters

In the following pages are twenty-five invitations to your next poems. Take a look at which of these ideas strikes your interest, or choose a writing suggestion at random. Pick up your pen or your phone, your tablet or your laptop, and dive in, keeping in mind that there’s no wrong way to write a poem. If you don’t respond well to one idea, choose another. May you go forward with a fistful of pencils and a ream of poems.