Describe the worst meal you’ve ever had made from a recipe that seemed extremely promising.
Category: tips from the bar
Tips from the Bar: The Ariel Baker-Gibbs Prompt
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March 12, 2020
Tips from the Bar: The Porsha O Prompt (part I)
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February 7, 2020
Imagine you are a genie freed by someone intent on using their wishes to cause harm. How do you negotiate with or guide the wisher? How do you use semantics to avoid giving the wisher what they desire?
Tips from the Bar: Simple But Also the Worst
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January 27, 2020
Write a poem that turns around a pun (the worse, the better).
Tips from the Bar: Not Even the Mayor of Flavortown
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January 3, 2020
Write a gourmet description of something that is definitely not gourmet.
Tips from the Bar: Let’s Not Go There
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December 20, 2019
Describe a physical place or location that seems custom-designed to ruin your relationship with someone.
Tips from the Bar: The April Penn Prompt
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December 12, 2019
Write a poem wherein you introduce an animal that would be especially bad at driving (or expand it to a skill or trade you have). Write a second part in which you find it difficult to perform the animal’s natural skills.
Tips from the Bar: Give No Answers
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December 8, 2019
Look for answers that you do not find in the poem.
Tips from the Bar: Cantos, Cantos
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November 29, 2019
Write, edit, or unearth a series of short poems on the same topic, but different storylines or perspectives. Arrange and rearrange to create, uncover, or hide a narrative that doesn’t exist in the individual poems.
Tips from the Bar: Put Your Hands on Your Hips
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November 21, 2019
Describe a dance move to someone who’s never seen or heard of it.
Tips from the Bar: Get In, Loser
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November 14, 2019
Find a fictional character in literature or entertainment that you don’t like– not necessarily a villain, just someone you don’t trust. Help them solve a problem they encounter on their journey.
NorthBEAST Poetry Slams
- 365/365 Challenge
- Dirty Gerund (Worcester, MA) 21+
- If You Can Feel It, You Can Speak It (Somerville, MA) 21+
- Liberation Open Mic (Roxbury, MA) All Ages
- Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam (Cambridge, MA) 21+
- Mass LEAP (Boston, MA) Youth Poetry
- Port Veritas (Portland, ME) All Ages
- Providence Poetry Slam (Providence, RI) All Ages
- Slam Free or Die (Manchester, NH) All Ages
- Trident Open Mic (Boston, MA) All Ages
- Untitled Open Mic (Lowell, MA) All Ages
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