Write an instruction manual for a procedure that does not yet have one (or need one).
Category: tips from the bar
Tips from the Bar: the Morris Slavin Prompt
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October 17, 2013
Tips from the Bar: Travelog
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October 15, 2013
Imagine a landscape that is familiar or important to you. Create a poem that is a map of that visual space.
Tips from the Bar: Doesn’t That Sound Wholesome
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October 4, 2013
Talk about a work of fiction and completely miss the point. For instance: schoolteacher Mr. White and his feisty student Jesse team up to open a business together. Madcap hijinx ensue!
Tips from the Bar: How to Dump Yourself
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September 26, 2013
Ask someone to leave– in a way that makes it positive for them.
BONUS APRIL RANGER LIFETIME PROMPT: see if you can write a poem about a waterbed that’s more memorable than the famous “The Water-Bed” Cantab open mic performance.
Tips from the Bar: Planet You
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September 20, 2013
Write a Field Guide to your own poetry: consider frequent themes, metaphors, or stories you reference.
Tips from the Bar: Needs More Salt
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September 13, 2013
Prepare a receipe to cook your past.
Tips from the Bar: Perfect Little Daffodils
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September 5, 2013
Write from the perspective of someone who wants to squash a revolution.
Tips from the Bar: Selling Rain
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August 30, 2013
Market a product to your audience that is already free, ubiquitous, and readily available.
Tips from the Bar: That’s Not My Sign
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August 23, 2013
Your favorite poem and your least favorite poem meet in a bar. What’s the conversation?
Tips from the Bar: Worst Nostalgia Ever
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August 1, 2013
Write about being terrorized by something you loved as a child.
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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