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Join Lnu For another year of Daily Prompts for National Poetry Month #NaPoRiMo. Write to a few, or write to them all, well have them here for you all month long. Check out past years prompts below!

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Join LNU during National Poetry Writing Month. We’ll be posting our prompts daily on our social media platforms and here. #LnuWrites2022 #NaPoWriMo

#LNUWrites2022 Join LNU this April 2022 for Poetry Month and write with us all month long. We’ll post a new writing Prompt each day. LnuTheaterCo.com

1/30 #LnuWrites2022 Spring is a season for change. Write a poem describing your personal season right now. Be sure to capture elements in nature and use them as a tool to enhance your poem. LnuTheaterCo.com

2/30 #LnuWrites2022 Tell the side of the story that no one asked you but will free you. LnuTheaterCo.com

3/30 Write a "Golden Shovel Poem". This form was created by Terrance Hayes. Take a line from another poem or text and use each word in that line as the end of a line in the poem. The title is the Quote. Make sure to give credit to author you are quoting.

4/30 Where I’m from_. Think of all the items you might put into a suitcase if you had to leave home and couldn’t return. Write a list poem that contains at least 5 items. Each item is the first line of each new stanza.

5/30 Who gets protected? Think about times you resolved a conflict without calling the police. What happened? Write a poem that envisions safety without calling the police.

6/30

come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
~Lucille Clifton

Write a poem that celebrates you surviving. What have you lived through? What have you won?

7/30 Whew Chile, we tired. Ain’t no prompt. Just write something.

8/30 Villains are always misunderstood. Write a poem from the perspective of a villain, who is debating on saving the hero. Why is there bad blood between them? What Part of the story don’t we know?

9/30 Poetic Device: Irony
Irony: Describing a contrast between appearance and reality.
Ex. Jails and prisons don’t make us safer. Police do not prevent violence.
Write a poem using irony to describe a system that is supposed to be helpful but isn’t.

10/30
War has two mouths.
The first mouth__.
The second mouth__.

11/30
This is not your average love poem…
Write an ode or love poem to someone or something that is unexpected.
(Kin, game system, homie, astrology sign)

12/30 Tis the season for leaving. What are the things that are no longer serving you?

13/30
Bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, nerves, skin, bodymind.
Write a poem focused on the body today. Get specific. Use the senses to guide you. How can you describe parts of the body with new words?

14/30 Safer at Home/Mask Mandates/Vaxx/Business as Usual... Write a poem talking about your experience during the pandemic. What do you think about the policies, mandates? How did you choose to stay safe? Are you afforded the same protections as others?

Juxtaposition is contrast- hidden with visible, power with oppression, freedom with cages. Or mutual aid when resources are limited. Write a poem that incorporates juxtaposition/contrast throughout the metaphors and stanzas.

16/30: Promises. Write a poem about promises kept and/or promises broken.

17/30: Resurrection, Rebirth, Recovery, Renewal, Resuscitation, Reincarnation. What tombs have you climbed/ crawled/ rolled out of? Write a poem about the comeback.

18/30: “Grief is a toothless smile” ~ T.S.Banks
The metaphor compares things without “like” or “as” and the things are usually unrelated...
Write a poem about grief. This could be about a friendship ending, losing an elder, or parts of yourself that no longer serve you. Use metaphors to intensify your poem.

19/30: Museum, Display, Window, Mirror, Glass, Bodycam...Write a poem about surveillance. Who is watching, looking, studying and why?

20/30: Time travel. Write a poem that speaking in a voice from the past or future. Experiment with telling/writing the poem in another voice/perspective than your usual.

21/30: Gratitude: spontaneous thankfulness and a readiness to show appreciation. Write a poem of gratitude to yourself, Spirit Being, person or thing.

22/30: Everyone can and will cause harm; everyone can be harmed Transforming harm is a consensual process between multiple people.Write a poem about a time you decided to stay in relationship after causing or being harmed.

23/30: Battle rappers are magicians at using allusion and rhyme. Allusion- a word or extended metaphor describing a larger element. Refering to themselves or something/one as something else. “My pen lines endure time like Sophocles...” Write a poem using allusion and rhyme.

24/30: Epistolary Poem. Poem read or written as a letter. Write a letter to your younger self. What would you encourage them to do? What would you celebrate about then? How would you love them?

25/30Capitalism- “Economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and profits off exploitation, underpaid labor and incarceration of poor people. BODIES OVER PROFIT. Write a poem the things you would do, if you didn’t have to hustle and survive the current system of capitalism. What systems of care would you be able to participate in.

26/30: Lament. A poem or song of grief about something or someone.
ex: Long after all the purple blooms
I’ll open up the box to grieve
~Allison Joseph "Lament for the Orchids”
Write a lament.

27/30: Another body like mine left outside the crosswalk,
Unarmed dot surrounded by badges and guns.
Safety plans exist to protect able bodies only.
~“expectations” by T.S.Banks from “Left”
Write a poem about the intersection between state violence and ableism. What happens?

28/30: Spoons, capacity, energy, chronic, c/Krip-Ingenuity. Write about having to get creative to get something done when you are/were low energy, ill, or just over-it.

29/30: Intuition: that gut feeling that moves to action with no evidence or proof. Write a poem about something you got a feeling about. Write a poem about trusting yourself.

30/30: SPLIT. Noun. A tear, crack or fissure, in something, especially down the middle. Write a poem about being torn between 2 things. Write about having to contend with nuance. Write about conflicting emotions.

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1/30: Where Im From

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2/30: Fury- intense and often destructive rage.

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Access: to approach or enter.

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Write about a time you were unavailable.

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4/30

#LnuWrites2021 4/30 Today is complicated... --------- I used to think... Image description: [Graphic with a blue background. With a Black LNU Logo. It reads: 4/30. #LNUWrites2021. There is a white pen and a white & black ink splotch with writing that reads : "Today is complicated.../I used to think..." Underneath the ink splotch reads: #NaPoWriMo]

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5/30

mask: a covering worn to disguise, amuse or terrify

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Underneath the mask...

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#LnuWrites2021 7/30 Dignity : sense of pride in oneself, self-respect. --------- I am worthy of... Image description: [Graphic with a blue background. With a Black LNU Logo. It reads: 7/30. #LNUWrites2021. There is a white pen and a white & black ink splotch with writing that reads : "Dignity: sense of pride in oneself, self-respect./I am worthy..." Underneath the ink splotch reads: #NaPoWriMo]

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#LnuWrites2021 6/30 VOTE: formal indication of choice between 2 or more candidates or action typically through ballot. --------- This is why i do or don't vote... Image description: [Graphic with a blue background. With a Black LNU Logo. It reads: 6/30. #LNUWrites2021. There is a white pen and a white & black ink splotch with writing that reads : "VOTE: formal indication of choice between 2 or more candidates or action typically through ballot. / This is why I do or don't vote...Underneath the ink splotch reads: #NaPoWriMo]

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#LnuWrites2021 8/30 Pain: discomfort caused by illness or injury Image description: [Graphic with a blue background. With a Black LNU Logo. It reads: 8/30. #LNUWrites2021. There is a white pen and a white & black ink splotch with writing that reads : "pain: discomfort caused by illness or injury." Underneath the ink splotch reads: #NaPoWriMo]

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#LnuWrites2021 9/30 Abolition: the ending to a harmful, violent institution or system. [Image description: Graphic with a blue background. With a Black LNU Logo. It reads: 9/30. #LNUWrites2021. There is a white pen and a white & black ink splotch with writing that reads : "Abolition: the ending of a harmful, violent institution or system." Underneath the ink splotch reads: #NaPoWriMo]

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