I've never tried to write a poem a day for a month, but when I got a writing residency for two weeks (many years ago), I did discover that simply spending hours every day trying to write poems proved to me that if I sat down and tried, the ideas and poems did start coming. Until that time I had always waited for inspiration to come.
I don't think I would enjoy forcing myself to complete a poem a day. It would certainly limit the kind of poem I would attempt. Now that I am retired, I do spend several hours a day in writing, but usually I am working on translating poetry. It gives me practice in all sorts of areas--rhyme, meter, diction, syntax--but it doesn't give me much practice in generating ideas for my own poems. That's okay. The writing itself gives me a sense of purpose, even when the ideas are not my own.
Susan
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