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Tips from the Bar: Get Off My… Turntable

Tips from the Bar

Write about the people who ruined music forever. (Bonus points for not mentioning Creed or Nickleback.)

Tips from the Bar: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One

Ruin a joke with your poem: start with the punchline, then go on from there.

Tips from the Bar: Mom Says Hi

Tips from the Bar

Revisiting an old prompt from last year: write a poem you are afraid your parents would write about you.

Tips from the Bar: Word Choice Malfunction

Tips from the Bar

Consider one or more pick-up lines that might reveal too much about the speaker.

Tips from the Bar: The April Ranger II Prompt

Tips from the Bar

You only know one sentence in a foreign language, and it is dangerous to you. What is it?

Tips from the Bar: Maybe a Manatee

Tips from the Bar

Write the poem you’ve been avoiding: the one filled with grief, loss, tragedy, and drama. Now take out the drama and replace it with a cute animal of your choice.

Tips from the Bar: The Preying Mantis Prompt

Tips from the Bar

There’s a preying mantis on your pillow. How did it get there? What does it want from you?

Tips from the Bar: the Christopher Clauss Prompt

Tips from the Bar

Does it seem like there’s a German word for everything? Adam couldn’t find one for “the offensive houseguest,” so he invites you to do so in a poem.

Tips from the Bar: the Adam Stone prompt

Tips from the Bar

We didn’t write down Adam’s actual prompt for this week, so here’s one that he reminded us of instead: write a poem about your ex-boyfriend (alternatively, make it about one you never had). If possible, use a quotidian yet highly complex metaphor.

Tips from the Bar: the Please Read

Tips from the Bar

Create a poem based on accidental emphasis– one where the narrator (or someone else) presents an idea garnered from improper inflection.