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, 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.
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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