In The Gloaming

What I Did In 2025: a poem prompt

Let's close out 2025 by creating one last Exquisite Collaboration Poem together.

Dec 7 • Joanne Brokaw

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November 2025

Art in five and seven syllables

Go make some art. It doesn't need to be "good", it just needs to exist.

Nov 24 • Joanne Brokaw

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October 2025

Give Me A Word

“When was the last time you were a participant and not the facilitator?” my therapist asks, as I realize I’m a squirrel hoarding nuts I’m not eating and…

Oct 31 • Joanne Brokaw

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Exquisite Collaboration Poem: Breath Of Moonlight

For this month, poets were asked to contribute to the poem, inspired by the prompt "Under a full moon..."

Oct 29 • Joanne Brokaw

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Exquisite Collaboration Prompt: Under A Full Moon

We're back with another Exquisite Collaboration Prompt, inspired by the full moon.

Oct 6 • Joanne Brokaw

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September 2025

Celebrating the small things

"What would happen if I treated maintenance as an accomplishment, not just baseline?" This line, from the Daily Wellness newsletter, hit me hard today.

Sep 3 • Joanne Brokaw

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August 2025

On mothers, daughters, and death

I've long joked that my mom was going to outlive us all, so you can imagine the shock to the system to find out she wasn't immortal. But her…

Aug 10 • Joanne Brokaw

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May 2025

Anniversaries of Goodbye

An email from the vet reminded me I said goodbye to Bailey a year ago today

May 17 • Joanne Brokaw

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April 2025

Happy Anniversary, Exquisite Collaboration Project!

Five years ago today I posted the first collaborative poem, an experiment to bring strangers together to create poetry during Covid lockdown.

Apr 26 • Joanne Brokaw

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Exquisite Collaboration Poem: Letting Go Takes Time

Two dozen strangers contributed to this poem, organically creating an ebb and flow of pausing, releasing, and embracing.

Apr 25 • Joanne Brokaw

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Exquisite Collaboration Poem: For Kay, who is remembered

The prompt for this poem, which was written in the summer of 2023 and never posted, was "I remember". There's a reason this one sat in a folder for…

Apr 24 • Joanne Brokaw

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Thoughts from (not) inside the MRI machine

"I'm going to be fine," I assured myself, and for a moment I thought I might be, until I completely and utterly unraveled.

Apr 11 • Joanne Brokaw

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