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Tips from the Bar: Worst Nostalgia Ever

Tips from the Bar

Write about being terrorized by something you loved as a child.

Tips from the Bar: the John Waters Prompt

Write about how someone generally considered to be a bad influence was a positive influence on you.

Tips from the Bar: the Meaghan Ford with a Twist Prompt

Tips from the Bar

Your parents meet. A disaster occurs. Tell us why you almost didn’t exist.

Tips from the Bar: the Harlym125 Prompt

Tips from the Bar

Write an erotic poem featuring entirely unerotic imagery. Feel free to take as your inspiration: the nappy owl or the wet, sweaty Chewbacca (nasty).

Tips from the Bar: The Sophia Holtz Prompt

Tips from the Bar

Take a dangerous word and apply it to something beautiful.

Tips from the Bar: the Carlos Williams Prompt

In memory of our much-missed bar back, Guest Tippers Emily Carroll and Melissa Newman-Evans offer the following:

Write an exultation or plea to a god that does not exist. For example: the Oh God of Hangovers, or Ernesto, the Saint of False Seriousness.

Tips from the Bar: A(nother) April Penn Prompt

A telephone-game version of the Odyssey? Check. Next up: telephone your favorite children’s book.

Tips from the Bar: SlamCenter on the Hour

Find, and write about, an event or pursuit even less deserving of SlamCenter-style play-by-play than poetry slam.

Tips from the Bar: I Am From Betelgeuse Five

Write a rallying identity poem for a place or thing that either doesn’t exist, or else isn’t frequently made the focus of identity (i.e. carpet embroiderers, soup enthusiasts, what have you).

Tips from the Bar: The English Accent Prompt

Tips from the Bar

Write a poem in today’s modern “dialect” –as imagined by people many generations in the future.