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 TTRPGs. 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.
- Try to use poems that aren't by complete dickwads of people. Seriously. Google names. 
- 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!

* New can also mean “have been working on it but this is a perfect excuse to finish it.”

PLEASE CREDIT THE POEM AND WRITER YOUR WERE INSPIRED BY!!


SOME HELP:
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.