Write postcards for people who won’t leave.
Category: tips from the bar
Tips from the Bar: Ghost Line
Start your next poem with this line. Erase it once your poem is finished:
The skyline slanders the night as it falls.
Tips from the Bar: Twitter Prompt #1
Check out @NYTMinusContent this week to pick your own prompt.
For the non-tweeters, here are a few examples of New York Times quotes taken out of context:
“woman hatin’ nerd toucher”
“She is young and she is happy, and that is interesting.”
“I get it, okay?”
Tips from the Bar: Buck the Trend
Write a poem about civilized horses.
Tips from the Bar: Ingredients for a Poem With April Penn and Andrew Campana
Ingredients for your poem:
1. The name of a thing obsessed with naming things;
2. Rain;
3. Architecture.
Tips from the Bar: The Nathan Comstock Prompt
If your family were shape-shifters, what would they turn into?
Tips from the Bar: I Was Promised Flying Cars
Produce your poem using a timeline based on an object or trend that is as old as (or older than) you are.
Tips from the Bar: The TLC Prompt
Write a to do list of what not to do.
Tips from the Bar: The Tick Prompt
Write a poem where you serve justice– at room temperature.
Tips from the Bar: The Lisa Slater Prompt
Based on Lisa’s instructional poem, “How to Have a Nervous Breakdown,” begin to write your own instructions… Adding a location or condition under which your breakdown occurs. The more specific, the better!
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