//
archives

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: Dull

This week let’s write a poem about being dull but make it exciting. Post your results below.

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.  

Enter your email address to follow Living Poetry's blog and receive new posts by email.

Join 971 other subscribers

View Our Latest Poetry Posts