Poet Laureate Poem Prompts

About the Ghazal as a Prompt, Fall 2024

In a departure from the usual poet laureate poem as prompt, I am inviting you to consider the ghazal (guzzle)…

3 months ago

About Writer in Residence CMarie Fuhrman

CMarie Fuhrman was born and raised in Colorado, in the shadow of Horsetooth Mountain and Rocky Mountain National Park. She…

9 months ago

Hells Canyon Revival

Camped beneath Hells Canyon Dam last night it started raining. I moved my head outside the tent and let rain…

9 months ago

About Poet Laureate Arianne True

Arianne True (Choctaw, Chickasaw) is a queer poet and teaching artist from Seattle, and has spent most of her work…

1 year ago

Seattle Sonata (legato, every note legato)

I - razbliuto It’s hard to be in love with someone who can change so much. My city left me…

1 year ago

About Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani

Anis Mojgani is the current Poet Laureate of Oregon. A two-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam and winner of the…

2 years ago

Shake the Dust

This is for the fat girls. This is for the little brothers. This is for the schoolyard wimps. This is…

2 years ago

About Poet Laureate Stacy Boe Miller

Stacy Boe Miller, the current poet laureate of Moscow, Idaho, is a poet, essayist, and editor originally from a small…

2 years ago

It was the Summer of Hard Tomatoes

sucking into themselves like I shied inward when asked, How is your father? like my father’s shoulders collapsed toward his ribs.…

2 years ago

About Poet Laureate Sandra Alcosser

Sandra Alcosser has published seven books of poetry, including A Fish to Feed All Hunger and Except by Nature, which have been selected for the…

3 years ago