You have comprehensive knowledge of something, but you do not know how this came to be. Explain why.
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Tips from the Bar: The MFA Prompt
Someone wants your cellphone, but you aren’t going to give it up. Write your response.
Tips from the Bar: This One’s on Nora
If your poetry was a drinking game, what words, images, tropes, or other recurring themes would compel the players to drink?
Tips from the Bar: American Traditional
Imagine the worst possible image or phrase to have tattooed on your body.
Now: what happens when you meet someone with this tattoo?
Tips from the Bar: Double-Header Prompt
Two prompts this week, Cantabbers!
First, the World’s Saddest Lobster. What does he do? Where does she go? Why is it so… Blue? Article at boston.com, and also pretty much everywhere.
And our bonus prompt: what dead person’s room would you like to spend an hour in?
Tips from the Bar: Sweet Goodbye
Write postcards for people who won’t leave.
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.
Boston Poetry Slam Online