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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 423 posts for Living Poetry

May Visual Poetry Prompt

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Hope everyone had a frank and productive April. Here’s your visual poetry prompt for the merry month of May. Post your poetic response in the comments below.

National Poetry Month

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Welcome to April, National Poetry Month! The Monday Poetry Prompts are taking the month off but we strongly encourage you to accept the Poem-A-Day Challenge this April and humbly suggest you follow the Write Better Poetry blog by Robert Lee Brewer because he’ll be posting a prompt-a-day for the Challenge. I’m sure there are other … Continue reading →

Musical Monday Poetry Prompt

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This week let’s try another musical prompt. Listen to the four-minute musical clip below then write a poem about it. Consider this the audio equivalent of our monthly visual prompts. Post your poem in the comments below or at least tell me if you’d like more of these.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Spring

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Today is the first full day of Spring for poets in the Northern Hemisphere and Autumn in the Southern. It’s also World Poetry Day so let’s write a new poem for the new season. Don’t wander lonely as a cloud or wait ’til proud-pied April comes babbling like an idiot, strewing flowers as the soft … Continue reading →

Monday Poetry Prompt: Attack, Exist, Roll

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This week let’s write a poem with the words attack, exist and roll 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. I couldn’t come up with a good image for those … Continue reading →

March Visual Poetry Prompt

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It doesn’t take a weatherman to know to post your poems in the comments below.

Musical Monday Poetry Prompt

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We’re trying a little experiment, listen to the two-minute musical clip below then write a poem about it. Consider this the audio equivalent of our monthly visual prompts. Post your poem in the comments below or at least tell me if you’d like more of these.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Add, Essential, Give

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This week let’s write a poem with the words add, essential and give 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. I couldn’t come up with a good image for those … Continue reading →

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