Write about what happens when someone gives up something beautiful and gentle for something difficult and dangerous.
Adam’s example: an ex who traded in two kitty cats and a bunny rabbit for a scorpion and two tarantulas.
August 2, 2012
Write about what happens when someone gives up something beautiful and gentle for something difficult and dangerous.
Adam’s example: an ex who traded in two kitty cats and a bunny rabbit for a scorpion and two tarantulas.
July 27, 2012
Your mirror has confessed all of your darkest secrets to a one-night stand, who is now infatuated with you. What happens next?
July 19, 2012
Consider:
What is the nature of time?
Based on your previous answer, does time exist?
Based on your previous answers, is it possible to step in the same river twice?
July 14, 2012
Write about the city where you grew up, or the city where you were born. Teach us something we couldn’t learn otherwise.
June 28, 2012
There is someone in your life (your mother, your ex, your high school teacher) whom you would never invite to a poetry reading. Write a poem to convince them that they should come.
June 21, 2012
Write a poem in the form of a voicemail message.
June 14, 2012
Our bartender claims this is not a complicated prompt: write about the silence before the horse with no name was named. Good luck!
June 7, 2012
Write a poem where the events occur at the wrong speed.
May 31, 2012
In honor of our survival of the Box of Doom slam, we entreat you to write a poem that doesn’t suck. (Hey, if Nora can write a good one about roadkill, we know you can.)
May 24, 2012
In honor of the Box of Doom Poetry Slam, we present a combination of the two worst possible prompts: inspire yourself to write a love poem about roadkill.
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