WEEKLY READ WRITE PROMPT
May 15, 2008 — The current Get Your Poem On post is here. This post is where you leave us a link to your blog in response to Blythe's prompt having something to do with mothers. Or any other poetric inspiration. We don't care, as long as you eat your vegetables.
Jill's Read Write Prompt for next week is an exercise in comparisons.
WEEKLY READ WRITE ARTICLES
May 15, 2008 — We've been wanting more read here at Read Write Poem and Juliet brings it with her review of Spoken Word Revolution Redux.
Christine has taken Informal Talk About Forms into new territory with her talk about the sonnet. Celebrate a new old form.
Christine's latest installment of Get The Lead Out is a discussion kick-off about writing groups. It's a good read. Join her conversation.
Jessica has a new Poetry Book Club report about Rae Armantrout's latest book, Next Life.
POLL DANCE
May 11, 2008 — Carolee is back at it with an interesting discussion centered on the last poll, which asks us about our self perception. There are great follow-up comments from participants, so read it...and then visit the latest poll. One column over - yeah, on the far right.
READ WRITE NaPoWriMo
Apr. 30, 2008 — Here's a recap of RWP's April 2008 support for the NaPoWriMo-er's effort(s!!).
And here's a celebration-of-your-NaPoWriMo-success button. Help yourself.
RANDOM PROMPTS
A different word or phrase will appear here each time you visit the site or refresh the page. Your current prompt is — sprocket
RANDOM WRITING TIP
Think of a famous person or situation from history, imagine them/it updated to present-day, and write a poem based on what you imagine.
RANDOM READING TIP
Read a poem aloud. Do this by yourself if it makes you nervous, or share it with other poetry-lovers. Listen not just for meaning, but also for the sounds the poem makes. If you can, record yourself and listen to what you’ve read.
RANDOM COLLABORATING TIP
Do one of the random writing tips listed above and invite a writing partner or partners to write a poem based on the same tip. Then share what you each wrote. What's similar and different about the way you each approached the assignment?
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READ WRITE POEM BUTTON
Below is the code that will allow you to get your very own Read Write Poem button for your blog. The button comes in two sizes, and all you need to do is copy the code for the size you want and paste it into your blog's sidebar or even into your individual Read Write Poem posts.
Large Button Sample and Code
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Okay, I managed to add the ReadWritePoem button to my blog but I can’t figure out how to add the NaPoWriMo one! The RWP one is in a text element but when I copied this one and then pasted it in the same place, all I got to show up was an address and not the button, itself.
Help!
Sorry to be so computer illiterate!
Dana started readwritepoem during NaBloPoMo. I joined her group, and ended up writing a poem a day, or else I wrote about poetry. And I haven’t looked back since! You can count me among the poet loons of NaNoWriMo. i might be channeling a goodly amount of American Sentences, or maybe a haiku or two. I also like pleiades for short, light poems. Those are the kind that get me through a marathon. Thanks, January, for the heads up, and thanks for the button, deb! I wish I knew how to make them.
Hi Linda,
You should be able to go to blogger and “layout”, then page element” then to “add a page element”, chosing the one that is for “HTML/JavaScript”.
Paste the entire code in there (make sure you grab it all from the box above) and it should work.
What’s weird is it worked for me, but January had a bit of trouble, too.
Let us know if it still is buggy.
So it looks like the button is buggy. (I swear it worked last night!)
I’ll work on it later tonight!
Sorry!
Ok. I redid it and retested it…should be okay.
…deb
Thanks, Deb, I’m at school now and blogs are blocked but will try it when I get home.
It worked!
Yay!
What do I do? Sorry another blogging dummy on your hands. I cant seem to find subject matter. Or we to write 30 poem of our own?
bd-Melanie
Gee, I can’t type either.
-bd
I’m intrigued by the Pleiades form. But how come if Craig invented it his own example of it doesn’t follow his own rules?!! He doesn’t have seven syllables per line.
I am a first timer, but am up for the challenge - so far so good…:) and a blog newbie at it too… hope to make it through!