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)…

4 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…

10 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…

10 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