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Monday Poetry Prompt: Smart Aleck

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Okay, wise guy, this week let’s write a smart aleck poem. I’ve met some of my promptsters so I know this won’t be difficult for you. Take all that sass and back talk and compress it down into an insolent little poem then post it in the comments below.

 

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About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, where he has hosted monthly workshops for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2021, 2024 & 2025 as well as the Best of the Net Anthology in 2024. His work has appeared in The Lake, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Panoply, Tipton Poetry Journal, the Gyroscope Review and the Naugatuck River Review among others.

Discussion

3 thoughts on “Monday Poetry Prompt: Smart Aleck

  1. Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld's avatar

    Yeah, but… smugly said
    leads one to fully concur
    it’s not really meant

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    Posted by Lisa Tomey | July 8, 2019, 9:02 AM

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