Listen up: write down your favorite lines from the open mic. Pick one that inspires and use it to prompt your own new poem. Don’t forget to credit the author!
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Tips from the Bar: the Other Other Other Adam Stone Prompt
What’s the worst pickup line anyone’s ever used on you… that worked?
[example redacted: come to the Cantab on a Wednesday if you want Adam’s war stories]
Tips from the Bar: the Morris Slavin Prompt
Write an instruction manual for a procedure that does not yet have one (or need one).
Tips from the Bar: Travelog
Imagine a landscape that is familiar or important to you. Create a poem that is a map of that visual space.
Tips from the Bar: How to Dump Yourself
Ask someone to leave– in a way that makes it positive for them.
BONUS APRIL RANGER LIFETIME PROMPT: see if you can write a poem about a waterbed that’s more memorable than the famous “The Water-Bed” Cantab open mic performance.
Tips from the Bar: Planet You
Write a Field Guide to your own poetry: consider frequent themes, metaphors, or stories you reference.
Tips from the Bar: Needs More Salt
Prepare a receipe to cook your past.
Tips from the Bar: Perfect Little Daffodils
Write from the perspective of someone who wants to squash a revolution.
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