it’s my dead best friend’s birthday today. he would have turned 22. i don’t have much else to say. Louis—if this reaches you somehow, know that i miss you like air. — dara ✮

today’s prompt is to write a poem that can fit on a postcard! thank you to Sarah Kortemeier from the University of Arizona Poetry Center for the inspo :) given the inherent length constraint of a postcard, the general idea is to keep only the most vivid images in the poem and to choose your words/phrasings judiciously! Lauren Ireland’s 2014 collection Dear Lil Wayne is made up of postcards she sent the rapper during his incarceration—here’s the first poem of the collection:

today’s prompt is from The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition 2023 (you can find their site here )! here’s the exercise: write a poem or flash piece about a topic that you are entirely unfamiliar with! don’t do any research, just let your associative mind take you somewhere new :) here are some generative ideas: high-energy physics, tax fraud, retail chains/cash registers, hyper-pop music, deep-sea scuba diving, and Mars colonization. have fun and let me know if any

hello to the person visiting my website—yes, you! if you like collecting new writing prompts and listening to someone else talk about themselves, you’ve come to the right place B) i will use this blog as a place to centralize things that have inspired me—in the form of prompts, photos of my friends backlit by sunsets, other writers’ words, and more :) thanks for tuning in and stay golden, ponyboy — dara ✮