Daily poem prompt posted

Writer’s Digest posted the Day 12 entry in its 2026 April Poem-A-Day Challenge on Sunday, April 12, with a prompt asking participants to write a “set poem.” (writersdigest.com) The article was published at 2:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time and is credited to Robert Lee Brewer, a longtime Writer’s Digest editor and the organizer of the annual April challenge. (writersdigest.com) Brewer’s Day 12 post frames “set” as a flexible word with “a surprising number of ways to come at” it, giving writers a single prompt word rather than a fixed subject line or formal rule set. (writersdigest.com) The April Poem-A-Day Challenge is Writer’s Digest’s monthlong daily-writing series, and the 2026 guidelines call it the 19th annual edition, with a new prompt scheduled each day from April 1 through April 30. (writersdigest.com) Writer’s Digest has kept the prompts coming through the first third of this year’s run, including a water poem on April 6, a dawn and/or dusk “Two-for-Tuesday” prompt on April 7, and a “(blank) But (blank)” poem on April 9. (writersdigest.com 1) (writersdigest.com 2) (writersdigest.com 3) The series has become a recurring spring fixture on the site’s poetry section, where the April challenge archives now list 2026 entries alongside past years’ prompt runs. (writersdigest.com 1) (writersdigest.com 2) Day 12 also fits a pattern Writer’s Digest has used in prior years: the 2025 Day 12 prompt asked for a “risky poem,” while the 2024 Day 12 prompt asked for a “funny poem.” (writersdigest.com 1) (writersdigest.com 2) For participants writing through all 30 days, Sunday’s post marks the challenge’s latest checkpoint: one more daily assignment in a month built around showing up and drafting a new poem every day. (writersdigest.com) (writersdigest.com)