Member Lisa M. Hase-Jackson has been running a poem-a-day challenge on her website, The Zingara Project/Zingara Poetry Review, and she invites Kansas Authors Club members to follow along.
A note from Lisa:
Below is a list of prompts posted so far this month for anyone wishing to take another look and for those who didn't get a chance to see them the first time around. With each prompt, I include poems published on Zingara Poetry Review that I believe serve as apt examples or as inspiration, so check the list for your name.
Tuesday, April 1:
Journal Mining Prompt
“How I Arrived Here” by Karen Neuberg
Wednesday, April 2:
Protection Prompt
“Because I Like to Make My Mind Pretty
the Way We’re Told to Make our Bodies Pretty,
I Work at Thinking Beautiful Things” by Rebecca Macijeski,
“School Bus” by Michael Chin“Protection” by F.I. Goldhaber
Thursday, April 3:
Beginnings Prompt
Friday, April 4:
Whispers of Work: A Lament for Extinct Professions
“Barnwork We Didn’t Talk Much About” by Charles A. Swanson
“Stay at Home Mom” by Sabina M. Säfsten“Fugitives” by Stephen Mead
Saturday, April 5:
Absences Unfolded
“What We Leave Behind” by Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb
“Song of Sorrow” by Jeremy Garnett“My Sister’s Baby Blanket” by Alejandro Lucero“Absencece by Inference” by Duane Hermann
Sunday, April 6:
Transformation
“The Ugliest Girl in Christendom Goes to the Gynecologist” by Camille-Yvette Welsch
“Ugliness came up” by Kitty Jospé“City of Bread” by Marc Janssen
Monday, April 7:
Humor in Public Spaces
"Permanence" by Denise Duhamel
Dance in a Drugstore by Anne Whitehouse
Tuesday, April 8
Utterance
“Ambidextrous” by Denise Low
Wednesday, April 9
Contradictions
"What is Lost is Not Lost" by Peter Mladinic
Thursday, April 10
Game On
Friday, April 11
Collect, Remix, Repeat
Saturday, April 12
Prose
Things to Be Grateful for During the American Winter by Michael Brockley
Sunday, April 13
What You Leave Behind
Monday, April 14
The Thin Veil
“Where the Dead Go” by Denise Low, Zingara Poetry Review
“Do the Dead See?” by John Brugaletta, Zingara Poetry Review
“Alternate Life Number Two” by Jeanne DeLarm-Neri, Zingara Poetry Review
Tuesday, April 15
Eyesore
“Ugliness Came Up” by Kitty Jospé,
Wednesday, April 16
Apocryphal
“The Parable of the Mustard Seed, the Chanteuse and Wild Rice” by Libby Bernardine
“In My Story” by Chella Courington
“My Stepmother, Having Returned to This Earth, Becomes Hannya” by Tara McDaniel
A note from Lisa:
Below is a list of prompts posted so far this month for anyone wishing to take another look and for those who didn't get a chance to see them the first time around. With each prompt, I include poems published on Zingara Poetry Review that I believe serve as apt examples or as inspiration, so check the list for your name.
Tuesday, April 1:
Journal Mining Prompt
“How I Arrived Here” by Karen Neuberg
Wednesday, April 2:
Protection Prompt
“Because I Like to Make My Mind Pretty
the Way We’re Told to Make our Bodies Pretty,
I Work at Thinking Beautiful Things” by Rebecca Macijeski,
“School Bus” by Michael Chin“Protection” by F.I. Goldhaber
Thursday, April 3:
Beginnings Prompt
Friday, April 4:
Whispers of Work: A Lament for Extinct Professions
“Barnwork We Didn’t Talk Much About” by Charles A. Swanson
“Stay at Home Mom” by Sabina M. Säfsten“Fugitives” by Stephen Mead
Saturday, April 5:
Absences Unfolded
“What We Leave Behind” by Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb
“Song of Sorrow” by Jeremy Garnett“My Sister’s Baby Blanket” by Alejandro Lucero“Absencece by Inference” by Duane Hermann
Sunday, April 6:
Transformation
“The Ugliest Girl in Christendom Goes to the Gynecologist” by Camille-Yvette Welsch
“Ugliness came up” by Kitty Jospé“City of Bread” by Marc Janssen
Monday, April 7:
Humor in Public Spaces
"Permanence" by Denise Duhamel
Dance in a Drugstore by Anne Whitehouse
Tuesday, April 8
Utterance
“Ambidextrous” by Denise Low
Wednesday, April 9
Contradictions
"What is Lost is Not Lost" by Peter Mladinic
Thursday, April 10
Game On
Friday, April 11
Collect, Remix, Repeat
Saturday, April 12
Prose
Things to Be Grateful for During the American Winter by Michael Brockley
Sunday, April 13
What You Leave Behind
Monday, April 14
The Thin Veil
“Where the Dead Go” by Denise Low, Zingara Poetry Review
“Do the Dead See?” by John Brugaletta, Zingara Poetry Review
“Alternate Life Number Two” by Jeanne DeLarm-Neri, Zingara Poetry Review
Tuesday, April 15
Eyesore
“Ugliness Came Up” by Kitty Jospé,
Wednesday, April 16
Apocryphal
“The Parable of the Mustard Seed, the Chanteuse and Wild Rice” by Libby Bernardine
“In My Story” by Chella Courington
“My Stepmother, Having Returned to This Earth, Becomes Hannya” by Tara McDaniel
 | Lisa M. Hase-Jackson Insomnia in Another Town, Clemson University Press (2024) Flint & Fire, The Word Works (2019) Visiting Assistant Professor in Writing, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh |
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