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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.
Bartholomew Barker has written 446 posts for Living Poetry

Monday Poetry Prompt: Useless

This week let’s a useless poem. A lot of people out there think poetry is useless but we know better. Write about something that is useless or maybe about those times when you feel useless. Whatever you choose to write put it to good use by posting it in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Determine, State, Turtle

This week let’s write a poem with the words determine, state and turtle in it. This is another of those prompts where I randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language plus a few of my favorites. Post your poems in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Green

This week let’s write a green poem without using the word “green”. That color has come to represent a lot in our language so let’s play with that. It’s not easy but post your poem in the comments below.

March Visual Poetry Prompt

You know what to do.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Questions?

This week let’s write a question poem. As those of you who’ve served in workshops with me know, I don’t like questions in poems. Usually they can either be reworded as statements or simply omitted and the poem becomes stronger but for this prompt write a poem that poses “who”, “what”, “where”, “when”, “why” and … Continue reading →

Monday Poetry Prompt: Circle, Few, Quality

This week let’s write a poem with the words circle, few and quality in it. This is another of those prompts where I randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language plus a few of my favorites. Post your poems in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Love

This week let’s write a love poem (since Valentine’s Day is Wednesday) but you may not use the word “love” nor any of its forms in the either the poem, title or epigraph. Get out your thesauri and post the results in the comments below.

February Visual Prompt

Post a yummy poem in the comments below.

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