NAPOMO (National Poetry Month) and NAPOWRIMO (National Poetry Writing Month) takes place in April each year. They are dedicated to giving the spotlight to poets from all walks of life and all their years of experience. 

This is very much NOT April. 

ABOUT ME

As a poet by education and a TTRPG writer by a set of both fortunate coincidences and unfortunate accidents, I LOVE to play. I love the narrative storytelling that so many people come together for in games. I also love the way poets play with language, sentence structure, space, form, and how we see and read words.  I've had games and poems leave me buzzing. I've had games and poems devastate me.  I've had games and poems stick with me for years afterwards.  I might be clinically insane enough to think this jam is a good idea. 

RULES
As much as poetry breaks the rules of language there has to be at least SOME ground rules.
- No GEN AI. NONE. DON'T.
- Stay on theme please. 
- Try to use poems that aren't by complete dickwads of people. Seriously. Google names. 
- Make or write a game inspired by a poem! Or a poem in response to another poem! (usually denoted in italics as "after [poet's name]") or a Lyric Game! (if you're new to poetry try writing a poem for your game. A poet new to game design? Lyric games are for you!
- New Projects for the jam only please.
- Have a good time. You're making and looking at new art. Enjoy it!
- PLEASE CREDIT THE POEM AND WRITER YOUR WERE INSPIRED BY!!

OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF AND HELP:
This is a TWIN JAM with the Poetry Inspired TTRPG Jam.
You can head to Poets.org for poems by theme, author, poetry movement, and other things!
If you want help with game design or poetry head to My Discord!

Some great poets I suggest reading include Danez Smith, Franny Choi, C. T. Salazar, Mary Biddenger, torrin a. greathouse, Mary Oliver, Maya Angelou, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Mosab Abu Toha, Refaat Alareer, Kamelya Omayma Youssef, Haleh Liza Gafori, Hafizah Geter, Seamus Fey, Taylor Byas, and Moumoud Darwish.