What object that we use every day is actually alien technology? How do you know?
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Tips from the Bar: The Area 51 Prop Department Prompt
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June 11, 2018
Tip from the Bar: The Origin of Your Specifics
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May 17, 2018
What part of your body has most recently Poké-evolved? What do you most miss about it? Does its departure change or benefit you in any way?
Tips from the Bar: But Everybody Wants to Run the World
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May 11, 2018
Who runs the world? Squirrels.
Bring us a poem with a squirrel in it… Yes, even if a squirrel seems an unlikely participant in the poem you intended to write.
Tips from the Bar: A Fine Judge of Character
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May 4, 2018
Have you ever had a partner that didn’t get along with your pet? Or a pet that didn’t get along with your partner? How did you explain this? What did you do?
Tips from the Bar: Santa Has Not Been Nice
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March 30, 2018
Ripped from the headlines: this week in Michigan, a woman was arrested for saying inappropriate things to a mall Easter bunny.
Is there something you wish you had said to the mall bunny, Santa, or other character? Is there something you would say now? If you were working in this capacity, what do you …
Tips from the Bar: OZ, ANSWER UR TEXTS PLZ, WE MISS U
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March 22, 2018
Adam Stone rehashes a prompt given by Omoizele Okoawo in 2002:
“All I need is a room.”
Tips from the Bar: The Way to Your Heart
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March 16, 2018
Consider the thing you would most like to eat right now: something that would fortify you emotionally, digestively, or gustatorily. Now compare it to the thing you most recently ate.
Tips from the Bar: BotWho?
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March 1, 2018
Write a poem using the Botnik keyboard of your choice.
Tips from the Bar: Freddy Krueger Works in HR
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February 22, 2018
Consider a work-related nightmare (the waking or dreaming kind). Revise it to fit your own needs.
Tips from the Bar: Aw, Shark Week!
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February 15, 2018
Create an obscenity based on something you love, but hate that you love.
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- Cantab Feature for Wednesday, February 20, 2019: Claudia M. Wilson
Ohio-gone-Boston-gone-Amherst poet Claudia M. Wilson. - Cantab Workshop for Wednesday, February 20, 2019 with Claudia M. Wilson
Claudia M. Wilson, Cantab feature for the evening, leads a REVISION workshop before the show. Bring a poem to work on and cash for the $5-$20 sliding scale cover charge.
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