Ready for an April poetry challenge? As you probably know, April is National Poetry Month, and to celebrate, Robert Brewer (editor of Writer's Market) decided to challenge himself to write a poem each day—not worrying about quality as much as getting some first draft material to work with. And he wants you to join him!

To help you out, Robert has prepared a series of poetry prompts for each day of the month of April. In fact, he'll even offer "Two for Tuesday" poetry prompts. Visit Poetic Asides for the prompts and to monitor Robert's progress too!

Anyone who writes a poem a day and posts that poem in the comments section of each prompt will get something of value over the summer. In fact, anyone who writes a poem on most of the days will probably get something.

If you're worried about rights, you'll retain your rights, though many publishers will probably consider those poems, at least those drafts of your poems, published—even with them being in the comments. But we hope you'll plan on participating.

If you have any questions, just send an e-mail with "Poetry Challenge" in the subject line to robert.brewer@fwpubs.com.

Even if you don't participate by writing poems in the comments, we hope you'll participate at home. And if any of those poems eventually end up published, we'd love to hear about it.