I’m so happy to be continuing to write monthly with my Poetry Sisters–Liz Garton Scanlon, Kelly Ramsdell, Andi Sibley, Tanita Davis, Sara Lewis Holmes, Tricia Stohr-Hunt, and Mary Lee Hahn. Our list of collaborations is getting rather long(!), so instead of including it in my post on the last Friday of each month, I’m going to house it here, in its very own post. Clicking on a link below will (usually) take you to my poem for that challenge, and within that post, you’ll find links to all the Princesses’ poems. Enjoy!
Poetry Sisters collaborations:
| May 2024 | Body odes inspired by Lucille Clifton’s “My Hips” (“Ode to My Backbone”) |
| Apr 2024 | Unanswerable questions (“What the Rock Knows of Urquhart Castle”) |
| Mar 2024 | Pantoums (“King of the Pond”) |
| Feb 2024 | Epistolary poems (“Thank You for Asking”) |
| Jan 2024 | Ekphrastic poems inspired by pinata art (“A Pony Frozen in Time” |
| Dec 2023 | Elfchens (“December”) |
| Nov 2023 | Inspired by Valerie Worth (“Hawk”) |
| Oct 2023 |
Bouts-Rimés (“Her Time Will Come”)
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| Sep 2023 | Diminishing verse (“The Journey”) |
| Aug 2023 | Exquisite corpse poems (“That Day in July”) |
| Jul 2023 | Monotetras (“Noise of the World”) |
| Jun 2023 | Write in response to a quotation (“Back Together with Moon”) |
| May 2023 | Ghazals (“The Slow Crawl”) |
| Apr 2023 | In the style of Pablo Neruda |
| Mar 2023 | Etherees (“Ode to a Mandala”) |
| Feb 2023 | Ekphrastic poems (“Where Time Goes”) |
| Jan 2023 | Cascade poems (“Fixing What Rips”) |
| Dec 2022 | Box poems (“Box Your Shadow, Block the Sun”) |
| Nov 2022 | Recipe poems (“Recipe for a Song”) |
| Oct 2022 | Dansa (“Insomnia”) |
| Sep 2022 | Definito (“Folly”) |
| Aug 2022 | Bop poem (“I Can’t Say for Sure”) |
| Jul 2022 | Phrase acrostic (“The Deadliest”) |
| Jun 2022 | Byr a Thoddaid (“Waiting for News”) |
| May 2022 | Use the word string, rope, thread, or chain |
| Apr 2022 | Inspired by Taylor Mali (“How Gratitude Is Like an Inflatable Kayak”) |
| Mar 2022 | Dodoitsu (“Artisan at Work”) |
| Feb 2022 | Exquisite Corpse (“One Egg”) |
| Jan 2022 | Overheard poems (“The Pit”) |
| Dec 2021 | Poems somehow inspired by bells (“Bell Song”) |
| Nov 2021 | Ode to autumn (“Ode to Bare Branches”) |
| Oct 2021 | _______ Is a Word poems (“Sheep Is a Solid Word”) |
| Sep 2021 | Tanks in response to another poem (U‑Haul poem and time/autumn poem) |
| Aug 2021 | Deeper wisdom poems (“What Detroit Knows”) |
| Jul 2021 | Villanelle around a dichotomy (“Apart But a Part”) |
| Jun 2021 | Zentangle poem (“Welcome, Panther”) |
| May 2021 | Ekphrastic poems (“The Dance of Being Human”) |
| Apr 2021 | In the style of Linda Hogan’s “Innocence” (Liz Garton Scanlon’s “Bamboo”) |
| Mar 2021 | Dizzying dizains (“The Wind Is an Owl”) |
| Feb 2021 | Inspired by metaphors (“Talent Is a Ticket”) |
| Jan 2021 | Inspired by birth-year words from the Merriam-Webster Time Traveler (“Four Forever”) |
| Dec 2020 | Wistful haiku (mine are here) |
| Nov 2020 | Hindsight, examined by revising or responding to an earlier poem (“Letter to a Thief”) |
| Oct 2020 | Naani with theme of foresight or fall (“They Have Their Uses, But…”) |
| Sep 2020 | Prompt: ponderous, or image of hippo, any poetic form (“High-Stepping Hippo”) |
| Aug 2020 | Prompt: hindsight — pick an old poem to revise or write poem in response (“Make Time Fly”) |
| Jul 2020 | Etheree with a theme of foresight or summer (“Pandemic Summer”) |
| Jun 2020 | Theme is susurrus, or an image of thick woods, whatever form we wish! (“Morning”) |
| May 2020 | Hindsight— pick an old poem to revise and/or write a new poem in conversation with it (“Respirator”) |
| Apr 2020 | Skinny poem with a theme of spring or looking ahead (“Daily Party” — mine is NOT the correct form for a skinny!) |
| Mar 2020 | Any form, theme of “classic” (first date haiku) |
| Feb 2020 | Revisit and revise or respond to an earlier poem (“More Than Two Sides”) |
| Jan 2020 | Haiku of looking forward or backward (untitled) |
| Nov 2019 | Gratitude sonnets (“Still Shining”) |
| Oct 2019 | Winter villanelles (“The Voice of Winter”) |
| Sep 2019 | Pastoral (“From a City Dweller to Her Love”) |
| Aug 2019 | A short poem comparing something to a snake (“Snake on a Cake”) |
| Jul 2019 | Ekphrastic poems (“Raise Your Gaze” — mine was a definito, too) |
| Jun 2019 | Triolets (“Heat Is a Lemon Lollipop”) |
| May 2019 | Skinny poems (“Gradual Decline” and more) |
| Apr 2019 | Anagram poems (“Sky Love Story”) |
| Feb 2019 | Mask poem (“Floor Lamp Waits”) |
| Jan 2019 | Poem celebrating a minor miracle (“Lunch in a Refugee Reception Centre”) |
| Dec 2018 | Ekphrastic poems (“Anatomy of Typography”) |
| Nov 2018 | List poems (“Cleaning Out My Locker”) |
| Oct 2018 | Poems using anaphora–a repeated phrase |
| Sep 2018 | Short poems using spike, shadow, roof (“Snowy Owl”) |
| Aug 2018 | Cento collages (“Daydream Through a Looking Glass”) |
| Jul 2018 | Sestinas (“Afraid to Wish for Answers”) |
| Jun 2018 | “Things I Will Miss When We Move” (an Aphra Behn poem) |
| May 2018 | Limericks about birds and bees |
| Apr 2018 | A toast! (I didn’t participate that month) |
| Mar 2018 | Ekphrastic poetry (“Refugee Camp: Day 834”–but this post has been lost :>( |
| Feb 2018 | Tanka inspired by each other’s January poems (“More Than Two Sides”) |
| Jan 2018 | Curtal sonnet (“Mai’s Wall of Warmth”) |
| Dec 2017 | Lais with a theme of peace, light, or hope (“Passing By a Winter Cottage”) |
| Nov 2017 | Triolets using 2 of 5 given words (“First Snow”) |
| Oct 2017 | Fall Hymns (“Old Dog” and “Fall Arrives”) |
| Sep 2017 | Ekphrastic poems (“Stop Wishing for Me!” peace poem) |
| Aug 2017 | Poems written to a pre-decided title, “Statues in the Park” (and a 2nd poem) |
| Jul 2017 | After Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty” (“She Walks in Glitter”) |
| Jun 2017 | Golden Shovel Poems (“Leaving Things Behind”) |
| May 2017 | Things to Do Poems (“Things to Do if You Are a Minnesota Summer”) |
| Apr 2017 | Response Poems (“Talking Back to Rilke”) |
| Mar 2017 | Ekphrastic Poems (“Searching”) |
| Feb 2017 | Villanelles (“One Day Too Late”) |
| Jan 2017 | Somonka (“Long Distance Relationship”) |
| Dec 2016 | Ekphrastic Poems (“Feather Bones”) |
| Nov 2016 | Terza Rimas (“When Hope Is Not Easy”) |
| Oct 2016 | Ekphrastic poems (“Flip a Coin”) |
| Sep 2016 | Clogyrnach poems (“Monarch”) |
| Aug 2016 | Ekphrastic poems |
| Jul 2016 | Poems inspired by a Kay Ryan poem (“House for Sale”) |
| Jun 2016 | Harpy poems |
| May 2016 | Tritina |
| Apr 2016 | “Channel-Hopping Through Grasshopper Reality TV” |
| Mar 2016 | Sedoka |
| Feb 2016 | Poem Inspired by a Picasso Sculpture (ugh) |
| Jan 2016 | Crown sonnet (on the periodic table) |
| Nov 2015 | Ekphrastic poems |
| Oct 2015 | Etherees |
| Sep 2015 | Found poems |
| Aug 2015 | Classified haiku |
| Jul 2015 | Inspired by e.e. cummings’ poems |
| Jun 2015 | Odes |
| May 2015 | Pantoums |
| Apr 2015 | Raccontinos |
| Mar 2015 | Sestinas (Lord have mercy) |
| Feb 2015 | Villanelles on hidden things |
| Jan 2015 | Triolets on beginnings (And I posted an extra one here.) |
| Pre-2015 | Villanelles, a crown sonnet (this is what really started it all), rondeau redoubles, and pantoums |
One Response
Wow! What a great idea. Thank you for sharing this. It’s a lovely reminder of the inspiration I find in writing with all of you.