The A-Z of Depth

This year’s theme for everything I’m doing on Experience Writing is Depth, so for this year’s daily posts in April I’ll be exploring the A-Z of Depth, and writing daily poems for Poetry Month about the A-Z of Depth.

The word depth has many different and interesting meanings which I presented in my post “Our Depth Study Gets Meta with Depth & Complexity” , but what I am finding fascinating is how the words depth, deep, and deepen are used in our daily lives. Now that I’m focused on depth, I’ve become aware of how In-depth people say their studies are, and how many deep-dives into a subject people say they are taking. I’ve noticed when people present ideas of Jungian psychology, they call it Depth Psychology, and there was a group of poets in the sixties called Deep Image poets.

During April’s daily posts, I will be exploring the depths of self-discovery, the depths of the oceans and deep space, the science of depth perception, and the perception of deep writing and art, among all the other exciting depths I dive into along the way.

This will be my eighth year combining the April A-Z Challenge with the daily poetry prompts at NaPoWriMo.net . I like the theme this year:

Reflection is something I’m doing a lot more of while exploring the depths of my mind, body, and spirit.

There are also daily poetry prompts at Writer’s Digest for the April Poem-A-Day (PAD) Challenge. And Poetry Super Highway has daily prompts, too. If you have a poetry prompt that you would like to share, PSH has a submission form you can fill out.

Last year I also found poetry prompts during poetry month at Thought Purge, Quickly, and River Heron Review. So if you’re like me and like to combine lots of prompts, keep an eye on these sites.

I hope you’ll join me in April for a daily discussion of what depth is and what it isn’t. How we find depth and how we create it. Ah, the excitement of spring is in the air.