Explore a new-to-you form of poetry this summer. Find a poem in that style and then try writing your own version on the same topic.

Love setting writing goals or writing challenges for yourself? Challenge yourself to write one poem each day or week, with the poem reflecting something that happened that day or week.

How can you best bottle the feeling of summer in a poem? See what happens when you limit yourself to fewer words.

Personify summer as person in a poem.

Grab a piece of summer-related ephemera (think newspaper clippings, event flyers, etcetera) and make erasure poetry, blacking out text on the page to create a whole new work of art.