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Almost every week from 2010-2020 I give a prompt for poets at a bar that didn't survive the Covid pandemic.
Many of the  2011/2012 blog post titles are from the brain of Simone Beaubien.
From 2020-2023 I gave occasional prompts as part of The Saturday Night Poetry Exchange.
Though I am no longer behind the bar at a poetry reading, I'll try and make a prompt a day in 2024.
Lime Warrior Photo by Matthew R McGonagle

Wielder Of The Golden Ruler

8/26/2015

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It's that time of year again, the sun is setting earlier, the night seems cooler, the UHaul trucks are crashing into public transportation. Ahhhh, the beginning of the academic year in Boston is a time for celebration. Look at all the furniture left out on the curb by twenty year olds who just don't know how to Tetris their possessions into moving vans, collect all the obviously fake IDs by nineteen year olds who think they look more like their cousin than they actually do, isn't the air just positively ripe with entitlement?

Remember when you were in school? Not college, necessarily. Maybe high school. Remember that teacher that was absolutely miserable. How you hated h(er)(im). That teacher told you something about yourself that made you furious. And now you're older and....wait, were they right about you all along?

Either write them an apology letter explaining how, as an adult, you are now better equipped to handle their difficult truth, or tell them off for being wrong about you all along.
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I'm Asking For A Friend....

8/19/2015

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This week's prompt is simple: Write a poem where the title is "A Cure For Loneliness". Bonus points if the cure actually works. "Surrounding yourself with others" is not an acceptable answer, as "loneliness" is an emotional feeling, not a physical description. If you want to work on the problem of being physically solitary, the title of your poem should be "Cure For Being Alone".

P.S. Mother Theresa's quote is insufficient, and the Gleebag pictured on the right has obviously never had a good cake cry. It's a placebo.
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Get Out Of The Jack London

8/12/2015

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Fresh off their super successful run at booking hotels for the Sochi Olympics, the 2015 poetry organizers in Oakland made sure that the official hotel for this summer's National Poetry Slam was rated The Second Dirtiest Hotel In America. In solidarity with our bedbug bitten, no-AC-having brethren, write about the worst place you've ever slept and how it has effected your dreams.

(Photo courtesy of Sean Patrick Mulroy)
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Ten Ways Buzzfeed Articles Are Just Like Timeshare In Orlando

8/5/2015

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Inspired by Scott Woods's Incredible Article: 10 Ways Kanye West Is Not Prince, make a poem where you compare two things that it doesn't make any sense to compare. For example: Ten ways clam chowder is like The World Series Of Poker, or Fifteen Ways this staph infection is like the career trajectory of Milli Vanilli.
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