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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

September Visual Prompt

Post your labors below.  

Monday Poetry Prompt: Compromise

This week let’s write a compromise poem. Never compromise in your poetry but post the results below.  

Monday Poetry Prompt: Wimpy

This week let’s write a wimpy poem. The poem itself shouldn’t be wimpy but should describe something feeble, powerless, impotent. Post your results below, if you wouldn’t mind too much.  

Monday Poetry Prompt: Snapshot

This week let’s write a snapshot poem. Focus in on a single moment in time then post the results below.  

August Visual Poetry Prompt

How’s the weather up there? Post your answer below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Practice

This week let’s write a poem about practice. This could quite easily become an ars poetica poem so for extra points write about non-poetic practice poetically and post your results below.

July Visual Poetry Prompt

Hot enough for you? Let me know below.  

Monday Poetry Prompt: Unforgettable

This week let’s write an unforgettable poem. While we always try to write poems that are unforgettable, let’s make this one about not being able to forget, either for good or ill. Post which below.  

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