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Writing Prompt: Double-Feature Prompts for AWP!

Tips from the Bar

Prompt #1, from bartender Adam Stone: write a poem about a city that prevents you from reaching your destination. For bonus points, make it a sestina. For an extra degree of difficulty, use landmarks for all your ending words.

Prompt #2, from server Emily Carroll: the Anti-Stone Prompt… Give a certain bossy bartender directions …

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Tips from the Bar: the Jack Slavin Prompt

Tips from the Bar

Write a three-part poem: your personal ad, date, and break-up with an addiction.

Tips from the Bar: the Russian Novelist Prompt

Tips from the Bar

What unexpected thing does something in your refrigerator say about you?

Tips from the Bar: the Max Harrington Prompt

Tips from the Bar

Write about the last failed kiss before your first successful one.

Tips from the Bar: Ask Whom?

Tips from the Bar

Siri gives you directions to an obvious metaphor.

Tips from the Bar: I’ll Come Back as a Hawk

Tips from the Bar

On reincarnation: what (or who) would you come back as?

Tips from the Bar: the Artie Moffa Prompt

Tips from the Bar

In honor of one-time doorman Artie’s upcoming visit to the venue, the bar offers the following prompt: for writers of free verse: attempt a form poem of any kind. For formalists: try your hand at free verse!

Tips from the Bar: Spooner It Ain’t

Tips from the Bar

Use the following concept as you see fit: feeding the hand that bites.

Tips from the Bar: Prompt by Proxy

Tips from the Bar

Write a poem about your day (or lifetime!) as a video game.

Tips from the Bar: the Alexander Nemser Prompt

Tips from the Bar

Why can’t your parents ever be president?