Laura

Collaborate! Complicate! Work with a partner in a different genre than your own, and create a piece that tells a famous story from another side. Write Birth on the Orient Express, paint Mona Lisa's derrière, animate a cartoon where the roadrunner finally gets shot and eaten for thanksgiving,

The theme is "love to hate it." Create something inspired by a hatred that holds a special place in your heart. Like Juliet crushing on a capulet in a hawaiian shirt, make your one horny adolescent longing spring from your one hate. Paint Jack Johnson's handsome

The theme is The Excreta Exhibit. Put on display what you usually throw away.Like the janitor James Hampton building a throne room out of gum wrappers, shards of metal, and broken lightbulbs that he found at his work (The Thrown of the Third Heaven of the Nation's

The theme this June is Hamartia Party-a. What is your tragic flaw? Describe it, talk to it, fight it, celebrate it, or draw it nude like Leo DiCaprio to Kate Winslet in Titanic. Whether you translate it as sin, error, flaw, or "missing the mark," make a party

Theme this month: Think of a smell that you evokes strong memories for you (the garbage of the seafood restaurant you lived above in Chicago, the smell of sunshine on your cat's belly, peanut butter tins left melting in the sun, the hemp-Chapstick breath of your high school

Dear Planetos, The theme is "teach in." Bring in a five minute presentation on an art or craft you know well and demonstrate how it is done. Along with the demonstration, bring in something you've made that illustrates your craft. For instance, write a sonnet about

"Where we're going, we won't need roads." Doc from Back to the Future eases Marty Mcfly's mind in this scene, reassuring him with this comment that the DeLorean will land safely because there are no roads. From The Cantebury Tales to Kerouac,

The theme is distraction: This month make something out of what distracts you. Turn your texts into performance art, paint your daydreams, turn your to-do list into a poem, write a love song to your inner critical voices, write a play based on something you found on reddit, or make

The prompt this January is Ekphrasis: Respond to a piece of art in a genre you do not work in. Make a painting of a Cure Song, bake a cake based on Anais Nin's erotica, write a song responding to Edward Gorrey's drawings, write a poem

The theme is Wanderlust: write about a place you have never been as if it is your beloved. Use the words cataract, drift, and silly putty. Wanderlust: A strong desire to travel; an orgasm caused by a rolly-bag; a metamorphosis of psyche caused by changing locations; a runaway train never

Prompt: Make two unrelated entities in your life collide: Imagine your birth certificate under a decaying woodpile, your mother-in-law clenching spark plugs, a bluebird singing in your freezer. Use the words soot and Kardashian. Next performance is Collision on Friday, November 15, 2013 at 8:00pm. Bring your bluebirds or