Resources and Prompts for National Poetry Month
Contests, events, and other resources to help you celebrate all month long
April is National Poetry Month, which is a great time to dive into poetry, whether or not you usually write it.
If you do write it, it’s an opportunity to geek out with all your fellow poetry lovers.
If you don’t, it’s an opportunity to try it out. Fiction and even nonfiction writers can learn a lot from experimenting with poetry. Creating evocative imagery, varying sentence rhythm and length, choosing just the right word, playing with language… these can all help you get out of any ruts your prose might have fallen into. For more tips on how to use poetic techniques to spice up your prose, see this article:
10 Techniques from Poetry to Spice Up Your Prose
Stop writing the same old boring sentences
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Besides, it’s fun! If you don’t consider yourself a poet, you don’t have to take your poetry so seriously. There’s no pressure to publish, and no one ever has to read it but you.
