It’s simple. OctPoWriMo, or October Poetry Writing Month, is a poetry writing challenge where poets form all over the world write thirty-one poems in thirty-one days. I have been participating in the challenge since 2017 and you can see all of those poems here.
Check out the blog that started it all by visiting octpowrimo.com.
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