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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.
Bartholomew Barker has written 421 posts for Living Poetry

August Visual Poetry Prompt

Take a leap with this prompt and post your poem in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Containers

This week let’s write a poem where you employ a simile which involves a container. The first one that sprang to my mind was “dumb as a box of rocks”. Obviously, stretch your imagination and come up with something so startling new yet obvious that it’ll just become part of the language then share your … Continue reading

Monday Poetry Prompt: Thunderstorm

This week let’s write a thunderstorm poem. It’s that time of the year, at least here in the northern hemisphere, where thunderstorms blow up in the late afternoon of hot summer days. Let’s celebrate them even if they leave our poor little furry friends a frightened mess. Post your anti-astraphobic poem in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Bee, Charge, Likely

This week let’s write a poem with the words bee, charge and likely 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: Erosion

This week let’s write an erosion poem. What is the rain? What gets swept away? What remains? Let us know in the comments below.

July Visual Poetry Prompt

May the spark of inspiration flare before fingers are burnt.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Basic, Medical, Step

This week let’s write a poem with the words basic, medical and step 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: Juneteenth

Happy Juneteenth, poets! Let’s write a poem to celebrate the day and post it in the comments below.

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