Who runs the world? Squirrels.
Bring us a poem with a squirrel in it… Yes, even if a squirrel seems an unlikely participant in the poem you intended to write.
May 11, 2018
Who runs the world? Squirrels.
Bring us a poem with a squirrel in it… Yes, even if a squirrel seems an unlikely participant in the poem you intended to write.
May 4, 2018
Have you ever had a partner that didn’t get along with your pet? Or a pet that didn’t get along with your partner? How did you explain this? What did you do?
March 30, 2018
Ripped from the headlines: this week in Michigan, a woman was arrested for saying inappropriate things to a mall Easter bunny.
Is there something you wish you had said to the mall bunny, Santa, or other character? Is there something you would say now? If you were working in this capacity, what do you …
March 22, 2018
Adam Stone rehashes a prompt given by Omoizele Okoawo in 2002:
“All I need is a room.”
March 16, 2018
Consider the thing you would most like to eat right now: something that would fortify you emotionally, digestively, or gustatorily. Now compare it to the thing you most recently ate.
March 1, 2018
Write a poem using the Botnik keyboard of your choice.
February 22, 2018
Consider a work-related nightmare (the waking or dreaming kind). Revise it to fit your own needs.
February 15, 2018
Create an obscenity based on something you love, but hate that you love.
February 8, 2018
Take on an event from pop culture, or in your own life, in the voice of an unusual perspective. (Adam’s example: the boom box from Say Anything.)
February 1, 2018
Find a story about your favorite celebrity or fictional character acting out of character: a sincere celebrity being funny, or Eeyore dancing the Macarena, etc. Explain why it happened. Your explanation does not have to be real, only as true as you can make it.
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