In 2018, the first-ever Youth Poet Laureate of the United States of America, Amanda Gorman, created a prompt for rising generations


While challenges confront every emerging generation, for young people today, the stakes have never been higher: climate change, the destruction of natural resources, food and water insecurity, widespread extinctions and loss of biodiversity, large-scale conflict and wars, artificial intelligence, nuclear security, biosecurity, a lack of economic opportunity, and much more.  Of course, the injustice is that those who are inheriting this dire situation are not the ones who created it.  But they may be our last chance to get it right!

To understand what’s worth fighting for, we must break our mind-set.  We are still doing most things in ways that imagine limited population and unlimited natural resources. 

Prompt for the Planet is a collaborative initiative to lend voice to the earth and document this critical moment in history through poetry, art, and creativity.