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Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, September 1
Aug. 25th, 2026 02:16 amThis is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be "Help That's Actually Helpful." I'll be soliciting ideas for caregivers, first responders, clergy, outreach workers, philanthropists, an anonymous benefactor, good samaritans, activists, volunteers, handyworkers, repairmen, teachers, parents, comares, superheroes, supervillains, adventurers, other helpful people, lending a hand, responding to emergencies, volunteering, making donations, supporting people in hard times, learning to trust others, offering crash space, helping someone move, planting trees, creating intimacy, making friends, getting to know each other, cooking together, discovering things, improvising, adapting, cooperating, bartering, sharing, fixing what's broke, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, All Together Schools, Parea, Triton Teen Centers, Thalassia, Rutledge Vermont, the Peace Store, Soup to Nuts, charities, homeless shelters, clothing banks, food pantries, soup kitchens, sobering centers, community clinics, mentor circles, support groups, churches, sharehouses, intentional communities, other polyhomes, gay bars, feminist bookstores, social justice departments in schools, clubs, quiet rooms, accommodations closets, inclusive workplaces, the Maldives, the Lacuna, Quaker communities, free pirate islands, community gardens, other helper hangouts, emergency aid, accessibility kits, intentional neighboring, altruism, skills heroes need, harm reduction, diversity, inclusivity, safety pin peace signs, other activist symbols, interfaith work, family dynamics, alternative family structures, partnerships not based on sex/romance, emotional closeness, nonsexual intimacies, first contact, rescue, interspecies relationships, trial and error, trust issues, teamwork, found family, complementary strengths and weaknesses, personal growth, and poetic forms in particular.
100 things you can do to help others for FREE
100 Ways to Build Connection, Community & Belonging
100 Ways to Help Others
101 Ways to Be the Change
150 Random Acts of Kindness
Among my more relevant series for the main theme:
An Army of One shows neurodiverse folks helping each other.
The Blueshift Troupers travel the galaxy helping colonies solve problems.
Clay of Life depends on the friendship between a blacksmith and a golem.
A Conflagration of Dragons involves refugees running to their allies.
Coracle Shores follows two siblings escaping from a wrecked world to a fae world, seeking help to settle there.
Daughters of the Apocalypse relies a lot on mutual aid for survival.
Fiorenza the Wisewoman is a source of help to her whole village.
Frankenstein's Family has diverse subgroups interacting to help each other.
Hart's Farm is a community where people routinely use teamwork to care for each other.
The Moon Door features a women's chronic pain support group, which is all about being gentle with each other.
Not Quite Kansas requires the characters to help each other get by in an unfamiliar world.
One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis involves drunks helping each other out, because they know what really helps.
Peculiar Obligations is about Quakers and pirates balancing each other.
Polychrome Heroics is largely about people helping people. Threads particularly focused on this include Antimatter and Stalwart Stan, Aquariana, the Big One, Iron Horses, Officer Pink, Rutledge, and Trichromatic Attachments.
Quixotic Ideas is set in a world with plenty of magic and a positive tone, where people often help each other and solve challenges peacefully.
Schrodinger's Heroes save the world from alternate dimensions, and they take care of each other.
The Wandering is all about old people traveling in time to their own youth so they can help more.
Or you can ask for something new.
Linkbacks reveal a verse of any open linkback poem.
If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week. (If you're not available that day, or you live in a time zone that makes it hard to reach me, you can leave advance prompts. I am now.) Meanwhile, if you want to help with promotion, please feel free to link back here or repost this on your blog.
( New to the fishbowl? Read all about it! )
100 things you can do to help others for FREE
100 Ways to Build Connection, Community & Belonging
100 Ways to Help Others
101 Ways to Be the Change
150 Random Acts of Kindness
Among my more relevant series for the main theme:
An Army of One shows neurodiverse folks helping each other.
The Blueshift Troupers travel the galaxy helping colonies solve problems.
Clay of Life depends on the friendship between a blacksmith and a golem.
A Conflagration of Dragons involves refugees running to their allies.
Coracle Shores follows two siblings escaping from a wrecked world to a fae world, seeking help to settle there.
Daughters of the Apocalypse relies a lot on mutual aid for survival.
Fiorenza the Wisewoman is a source of help to her whole village.
Frankenstein's Family has diverse subgroups interacting to help each other.
Hart's Farm is a community where people routinely use teamwork to care for each other.
The Moon Door features a women's chronic pain support group, which is all about being gentle with each other.
Not Quite Kansas requires the characters to help each other get by in an unfamiliar world.
One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis involves drunks helping each other out, because they know what really helps.
Peculiar Obligations is about Quakers and pirates balancing each other.
Polychrome Heroics is largely about people helping people. Threads particularly focused on this include Antimatter and Stalwart Stan, Aquariana, the Big One, Iron Horses, Officer Pink, Rutledge, and Trichromatic Attachments.
Quixotic Ideas is set in a world with plenty of magic and a positive tone, where people often help each other and solve challenges peacefully.
Schrodinger's Heroes save the world from alternate dimensions, and they take care of each other.
The Wandering is all about old people traveling in time to their own youth so they can help more.
Or you can ask for something new.
Linkbacks reveal a verse of any open linkback poem.
If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week. (If you're not available that day, or you live in a time zone that makes it hard to reach me, you can leave advance prompts. I am now.) Meanwhile, if you want to help with promotion, please feel free to link back here or repost this on your blog.
( New to the fishbowl? Read all about it! )
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