A terrible person has cooked you breakfast. Why?
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Tips from the Bar: Ann Coulter’s Waffles
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January 16, 2014
Tips from the Bar: The Five-Second Rule
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January 9, 2014
Write about the place where, if you dropped a poem there, you would never consider picking it back up and putting it in your mouth.
Tips from the Bar: Why the Long Face?
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January 2, 2014
A horse walks into a bar. Now what?
Tips from the Bar: No One Is Saying That Adam and Simone Are Now the Same Person
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December 23, 2013
…we’re just saying it’s been three weeks since anyone has seen Adam and Simone in the same bar.
Related to our staff’s absences: write about your worst road trip.
Tips from the Bar: Prompt from Afar
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December 12, 2013
Are you a morning person? Imagine the night so good that you cheat on the morning.
(Night owls should reverse this prompt for similar, or perhaps opposite, effect.)
Tips from the Bar: Nora Talks to the Bartender
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December 6, 2013
You dedicate your latest artistic endeavor to one of your inspirations, who doesn’t show up to see it. Now what do you say?
Tips from the Bar: Backtrack
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November 29, 2013
Write, or rewrite, the poem you’ve written… That you realize is wrong.
Tips from the Bar: the Nora Meiners Prompt
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November 21, 2013
Write about a scene from a movie that changed your life. Consider how your take was different than what the director may have intended.
Tips from the Bar: Rumors of the Alpacalypse Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
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November 14, 2013
You have custody of a llama for twenty-four hours. What do you do?
Tips from the Bar: Get Out! Get Out! Get Out!
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November 9, 2013
Write a dirge/eulogy/Dear John/get-out-of-my-house letter to 2013.
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