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Monday Poetry Prompt: Book Titles

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This week let’s write a poem where we incorporate the titles of six books pulled at random from my shelves. The titles are:

Carve the Runes
For Instance
Harping On
In the Palm of your Hand
Seeking the Hook
Teahouse of the Almighty

This is a prompt that Living Poetry’s founder, Angelika, regularly gives us during Germination Workshops and I am surprised at how consistently this prompt inspires superior poetry. You don’t have to incorporate them all and, if you ever feel in need of a prompt, you can always raid your own bookshelves.

Just don’t forget to post your poem 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.

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