Write a three-part poem: your personal ad, date, and break-up with an addiction.
Category: tips from the bar
Tips from the Bar: the Russian Novelist Prompt
What unexpected thing does something in your refrigerator say about you?
Tips from the Bar: the Max Harrington Prompt
Write about the last failed kiss before your first successful one.
Tips from the Bar: Ask Whom?
Siri gives you directions to an obvious metaphor.
Tips from the Bar: I’ll Come Back as a Hawk
On reincarnation: what (or who) would you come back as?
Tips from the Bar: the Artie Moffa Prompt
In honor of one-time doorman Artie’s upcoming visit to the venue, the bar offers the following prompt: for writers of free verse: attempt a form poem of any kind. For formalists: try your hand at free verse!
Tips from the Bar: Spooner It Ain’t
Use the following concept as you see fit: feeding the hand that bites.
Tips from the Bar: Prompt by Proxy
Write a poem about your day (or lifetime!) as a video game.
Tips from the Bar: the Alexander Nemser Prompt
Why can’t your parents ever be president?
Tips from the Bar: e.e. cummings It Ain’t
The balloon man is handing out free balloons to the children. When each takes one, the balloon lifts the child up, up, and away. Where do they go? What happens to them?
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