Sage Cohen's Tip A Day: Declare Your Own NaPoWriMo

Editor’s Note: Throughout the month of April, Reading Local and Portland poet Sage Cohen will celebrate National Poetry Month by featuring a new tip each day.

April 2: Declare your own NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month)

Want to fire up those poetry engines and keep a steady momentum? Yes, you can! Spend the month of April writing a poem a day. It doesn’t have to be a good poem or a finished poem. Just a poem. Meet up with a friend and drink a lot of coffee if you have to. Call in sick. Leave the dishes in the sink. But write that poem. Day after day after day.

Here are a few, great resources for prompts and community throughout the month of April to keep you going:

• Read Write Poem napowrimo daily poetry prompts.
• Poetic Asides, the blog of Robert Lee Brewer, editor of Writer’s Market “Poem-a-Day” challenge.

Sage Cohen is the author of WRITING THE LIFE POETIC: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry (Writers Digest Books, 2009), THE PRODUCTIVE WRITER: Tips & Tools for Writing More, Stressing Less and Creating success (Writer’s Digest Books, forthcoming in 2010) and the poetry collection Like the Heart, the World. Learn more at www.writingthelifepoetic.typepad.com.

Image credit Poets.org.