It’s March 31, or as we like to call with around here, Na/GloPoWriMo Eve. A time when poetic spirits haunt the land, preparing for their month of fun…

Tomorrow, we’ll have for you our first daily resource and featured participant, as well as a daily prompt. In the meantime, here’s an early-bird prompt for those of you whose geographic relationship with the international date line means that April 1 arrives a bit earlier than it does at National/Global Poetry Writing Month HQ.

Start by reading Katie Naughton’s poem, “Debt Ritual: Oysters.” Now, write your own poem in which you refer to a specific writer or artist (or work of literature/art) and make a declarative statement about want or desire. Set the poem in a particular, people-filled place, like a restaurant, bus station, museum, school, etc.

Happy writing!

Ooh, just two days left until April 1, and the beginning of Na/GloPoWriMo 2026! We’ll be back tomorrow with our early-bird prompt, but if you’re trying to shake off your pre-challenge poetic jitters in the meantime, why not soothe yourself with this brief guide to prosody, the art and science of poetic meter?

Happy last Sunday in March, all, and happy three-day-countdown to National/Global Poetry Writing Month. This will be our twenty-third year! It’s somewhat sobering to think that if Na/GloPoWriMo were a person, it would already be old enough to drive, vote, drink, and probably have its own apartment…

Ah, well. Time flies when you’re having fun. And we certainly hope you have fun with this year’s challenge. As usual, we’ll have daily prompts, daily resources, and a daily featured participant. And stay tuned for our early-bird prompt on March 31!

Happy Ides of March, everyone (unless you’re Julius Caesar). For those of you who are not doomed Roman emperors, mid-March should hold no terrors — especially because it means that National/Global Poetry Writing Month is almost upon us. As it turns out, writing a poem every day for a month is far less intimidating than a bunch of fairweather friends armed with daggers! Learning to dance on the knife’s edge of verse is a wondrous kind of fun — and the mortality rate is refreshingly low.

All that silliness aside, we’ll be back in the three days leading up to April. In the meantime, why not spend some time exploring The Poetry Archive? This non-profit is dedicated to preserving recordings of poets reading their work, and they have nearly 2,000 recordings freely available online.

Happy listening!

Hello, all. It’s March 1, which means it’s getting to be that time of year again. Time to start putting on our poetical thinking caps, and gear up to write thirty poems across the month of April.

Whether you’re just learning about Na/GloPoWriMo or returning for the umpteenth time, the idea is simple: Write a poem a day for the month of April. That’s thirty days, thirty poems. That’s the only rule! (And if you break it, remember — there are no poetry police. No one will come hunt you down. It’s fine. This is all for fun!)

To help you along, we’ll be posting a prompt every day through the month, along with a special “early-bird” prompt on March 31, to help tide over all those on the other side of the international date line from Na/GloPoWriMo headquarters, and for whom April begins a few hours earlier than it does here in Maine, USA.

Perhaps you are wondering what you should do with your daily efforts? Well, if you have a blog or other website, feel free to post them there, and then you can link to your daily efforts in the comment section for each day’s prompt. The comment sections are lively and friendly, and you can access them by clicking on the title to each day’s post. You can also submit your blog or website for inclusion in our list of participants’ sites – just click the “Submit Your Site!” link at the top of the page.

Finally, if you would like a little website button or banner to reflect your participation in Na/GloPoWriMo 2026, you can find a few options below.

We’ll be back around March 15, with a little status post that will give you some insight into what we’re working on for April. In the meantime, f you have questions in the meantime, please contact us at napowrimonet AT gmail DOT com.