A week ago, I hosted another Living Poetry Germination Workshop. One of the ekphrastic prompts was from a surrealist art book. We wrote based on the painting above, “The Enigma of a Day” by Giorgio de Chirico. Post your Labor Day labors in the comments below.
About Bartholomew Barker
Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop 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 a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.
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How appropriate for labor day 🙂
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | September 2, 2019, 8:46 AMI thought so too. We had a lucky roll of the dice for this prompt.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | September 2, 2019, 9:54 AMSure did great dice master!!
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | September 2, 2019, 10:11 AMJust posted my poem to https://bartbarkerpoet.com/2019/09/02/pre-modern/
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | September 2, 2019, 7:20 PM