Write a poem about a soothing sound.
Category: tips from the bar
Tips from the Bar: Free as a Birb
Write a poem from the perspective of a bird (any bird).
Tips from the Bar: The Memento Prompt
A prompt from poet and comedian Ron Prudent, via doortender Michael F. Gill:
Write a poem using the non-linear narrative structure of the movie Memento. Use your odd-numbered lines (first line, third line, fifth line, etc.) to tell a story, and your even-numbered lines (second, fourth, sixth, etc.) to tell the same story, but starting …
Tips from the Bar: A Simple Prompt
You are on a date. A ferret appears. Write what happens next.
Tips from the Bar: This Is Not My Beautiful Car
Looking for something emotionally important to you, you instead find a set of keys. Do you recognize them? Where do they belong?
Tip from the Bar: Not Abandoned, Just a Canto
Put together a series of your best unfinished first stanzas to create a single poem.
Tips from the Bar: Like a New World, But New
Imagine how a single, small change in technology or circumstance would have completely reshaped our world.
Tips from the Bar: This Is Not My Beautiful Ostrich
Describe an animal as though you’ve never seen it before, in a way you’ve never heard before.
Tips from the Bar: What’s a Cantab?
Describe an advance of planning, prep work, or advance communication that would make your job, emotional growth, or daily life much, much easier– despite the fact that you know you will never do it.
Tips from the Bar: You Wish You’d Been Billy Barnum
Write or print out an older poem of yours that you’ve let out into the world, but that you think could use some updating or editing. Create a new poem around, over, and in its margins.
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