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Tips from the Bar: the Michael Fitzgerald Prompt

In honor of our survival of the Box of Doom slam, we entreat you to write a poem that doesn’t suck. (Hey, if Nora can write a good one about roadkill, we know you can.)

Tips from the Bar: Double Your Doom

In honor of the Box of Doom Poetry Slam, we present a combination of the two worst possible prompts: inspire yourself to write a love poem about roadkill.

Tips from the Bar: Don’t Say No!

Reject an offer as nicely as possible… Without actually saying “no.”

Tips from the Bar: The Jamei Bauer Prompt

You Cannot Have The Kitchen Table, But I Don’t Give A Good Goddamn About The Stools: You have just broken up with someone, or more likely, they have broken up with you. It’s time to split up your belongings. There is something neither of you want. Explain why it’s they other person’s responsibility to take …

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Tips from the Bar: We Demand an Apology

Apologize for the crimes committed by the monkeys on Maya Phillips’ pajama pants.

Tips from the Bar: the Tom Lehrer Prompt

Produce a poem with too many adverbs. Alternatively: make up your own adverb.

Tips from the Bar: Brian S. Ellis Prompts Patrick S.

Write about the seventh gender.

Tips from the Bar: Hi, Mom!

We know you can’t read any of your poems in front of your parents. Now write the poem you could never read to them.

Tips from the Bar: the Odd Couple

Select an unlikely pair from history, politics, pop culture, science, or art and bring them together in a poem.

Tips from the Bar: Happy Pangolin Day!

Write about a little-known holiday. (St. Patrick’s Day does NOT count.)