On this fifth Monday of March, here’s a musical prompt for your poetry. Listen to this two and a half minute piece of music and post a poem in the comments below.
National Poetry Month starts on Wednesday and many of us will be engaged in the April Poem-a-Day Challenge. As we’ll be inundated with daily prompts, I’m going to take the next four Mondays off. The Living Poetry Prompt will return on May the Fourth with something visual.
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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