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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

December Visual Poetry Prompt

Apologies for the lack of a prompt last week. Didn’t mean to leave you all out in the cold.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Goal

This week let’s write a goal poem. It can be about setting goals, achieving goals or, if you’re like me, you’re interested a specific kind of goal this month. Take your best shot and, in this case, hit the Post (button) to share your GOOOOOOOALLLL in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Condition, Gratitude, Regular

This week let’s write a poem with the words condition, gratitude and regular in it. This is another of those prompts where I (somewhat) 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: River

This week let’s write a river poem. Whether standing on their banks or driving across one on a bridge, you can’t help but feel the metaphors streaming by. Let’s put them to good use before they flow into the sea and post the results in the comments below. Extra credit: include the word fluviology.

November Visual Poetry Prompt

Orange you glad it’s November? Post your poem in the comments below.

Halloween Musical Poetry Prompt

For Halloween let’s be inspired by the fifth movement from Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique then post your own poème fantastique in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Waste Land

This month marks the centenary of the publication of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, so let’s write a waste land poem. You don’t have to know the poem to use the prompt though I strongly encourage you to read The Waste Land at some point in your career as a poet. It’s a remarkable … Continue reading →

Monday Poetry Prompt: Combine, Time, Upon

This week let’s write a poem with the words combine, time and upon 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.

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