Join Seth Haines for a new poetry prompt on the swallow, from this month's Swan, Swallow, the Phoenix theme.

Write a coming-of-age poem inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling" in this week's poetry prompt from Seth Haines.

Seth Haines kicks off the month of May with a new poetic playlist on our Swans, Swallow, Phoenix theme, and a brand new poetry prompt to boot.

Making Grendel from paper mâché? Perhaps you'd rather just write a creature poem. Seth Haines has a new poetry prompt from literature's greatest creatures.

St. George of the Bayou spins a dragon tale and a brand new poetry prompt.

The pantoum is a metaphor, an artistic expression of cooperation, and the perfect poetic medium for artistic collaboration. Seth Haines invites you to join with other poets in a collaborative pantoum in the comments.

Seth Haines tried his hand at this month's theme. Writing a pantoum was an exercise in discipline, sticking to the strictures of a poetry form. And like it or not, the poetic form assisted in maintaining and conveying the chaotic sense of the story.

One Direction and Bon Jovi are all over the new goat song craze. We kick off our March Pantoum poetry theme with a playlist for the goat pantoum.

It was only when I started writing poems that I began to understand that good and bad jobs, and best and worst jobs, often walk hand in hand.

The beverage wars are on. This week's poetry prompt pits coffee against soft drinks (or any other drink, really) in a duel to the death.

Cream is only good when it's fronted by Eric Clapton, and the highest form of coffee sacrilege is its dilution with dairy. That's one man's opinion. What about you? How you take it? Seth Haines has another poetry prompt.