Write about an inanimate object that has ceased to fulfill its purpose, so goes back to tell the other objects what awaits them.
Bonus MacKenzie family prompt: “The Future.”
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Tips from the Bar: You Get a Gold Star
Start your poem with a household chore.
Tips from the Bar: The Aaron Rodgers Prompt
Write about something that shouldn’t be decided by a coin flip. Or: something that should.
Tips From the Bar: Adam Says It’s an Easy One
Try out a poem wherein you have a conversation with inanimate objects.
Bonus MacKenzie family prompt: see if you can be inspired by “water.”
Tips from the Bar: Balderdash!
Find a word you don’t know the meaning of. Let your poem be its definition.
Tips from the Bar: Three-Word Prompt
“Mail-Order Groom.”
Good luck!
Tips from the Bar: Worst Allston Xmas Ever
A giant squid goes apartment hunting.
Write a persona poem: consider taking on the voice of the squid, or the realtor, or the downstairs neighbor, or perhaps the prospective apartment itself.
Tips from the Bar: Happy New Bonus Shira Erlichman Prompt
Adam Stone offers two prompts for your extra week off between now and then ext show.
#1: Name a New Year’s Resolution you’re glad you didn’t keep.
#2: Describe the Yankee swap gag gift to end all Yankee swap gag gifts. Shira E’s historical example: a single ticket, complete with round-trip airfare, to …
Tips from the Bar: Rumor Mill
Write about where you will actually be when the rumor surfaces that you’ve disappeared.
Tips From the Bar: Replies Will Not Be Read
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