get your poem on #38

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Newsy: (No, not nosy. That is for the Get Your Poem On. This is about a little development newsworthy of your attention.)

A while ago Dana and Deb pimped promoted Twitter as a cool poetry-community-enhancing microblogging tool. Well, microblogging is pretty cool, but since Twitter has had a few reliability problems as of late we have moved over to identi.ca. Our identi.ca home is http://identi.ca/readwritepoem and that’s where you can find us and a few of our poetry pals creating and kibitzing. Come join us. Yes, it’s a distraction. But it is also a fun place to talk to each other about poetry. Or create poetry. (Blythe and Dana recently wrote a poem whilst “denting.” A dent is to identi.ca what a tweet is to Twitter.)

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Oh, and don’t miss Dana’s interview with Brent Goodman last week.

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1. Dana - August 4, 2008

OK, listen: Here’s a collaborative poem I wrote with my real-life friend Beth. It’s not smelly, but there are fish in it. Two different kinds. So it’s kinda smelly in a way:

orange roughy

2. Tiel Aisha Ansari - August 4, 2008

This was a smell-based poem I wrote a while back: Frangipani

3. Crafty Green Poet - August 4, 2008

Here’s a poem about smells: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/08/rainy-scents.html

4. artpredator - August 4, 2008

mine is a 315experiment poem from 2002 about night blooming jasmine, jungle & jaguar…I learned last night how to recorded with music but haven’t figured out how to post it yet on my wordpress blog!

http://artpredator.wordpress.com (click here–if you do my name you get an image of my son!)

5. artpredator - August 4, 2008

and please do join us in writing this month of August at 315am! info on my blog or at http://www.315experiment.com (i think that’s right)

6. AnthonyNorth - August 4, 2008

You’ll find mine in this post:

http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/how-to-decide-more

Enjoy.

7. gautami tripathy - August 4, 2008

It has smell of eternal love:

yellowed piee of paper

8. gautami tripathy - August 4, 2008

Piece..

9. Brian - August 4, 2008

http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/hunting-jungle/

A poem called “Mating Rituals” and how scent attracts.

10. Katherine - August 4, 2008

Here’s mine Theology

the password is: porcupine

Note to the mods: I’m switching over to WordPress for my poetry and religious writing. The LiveJournal will be exclusively for my random personal crap from now on. My RWP buddies don’t really need to be bothered with updates on my lactose intolerance or lack of money. :)

11. durable pigments - August 4, 2008

Autobiography, Written In Scent

12. Nathan - August 4, 2008

Here’s mine: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/exhaust-fumes-and-french-fries-revised

13. Donald Harbour - August 4, 2008

Forty-four years past and counting.
That Smell.

14. Lirone - August 4, 2008

due to bad weather still in touch with cyberspace… now off to smell the real version of the smell described in this poem

15. twitches - August 4, 2008

Been quiet for a few weeks, but I’m baaaack with something smelly:

Essence

16. Nicole Nicholson - August 4, 2008

My nose told a story of a day at the beach….

-Nicole

17. Dana - August 4, 2008

I love how many people think collaboration is a monkey, given our poll results.

18. SB - August 4, 2008

An Olfactory Meditation

Probably not a poem.

I don’t know what it is, or might become.

Any critiques, guidance, advice welcome.

19. Jenn - August 4, 2008

I actually made myself a little ill writing *THIS ONE* .

20. Jessica - August 4, 2008

Here’s my stinky poem about my house, cat, and husband.

There’s a little preface about my new journal cover, but I promise the poem is there, on the bottom.

21. Christine - August 4, 2008

Since my son is leaving for college soon, I have babies and children on the brain, and those kinds of smells. No, not diapers this time!

Hopeful scents

22. A~Lotus - August 4, 2008

I was ACTUALLY tempted to pick MONKEY on the poll, because there were times when a poem sounded sane and then ended up sounding as crazy as monkeys. Nevertheless, I never get bored with collaborative works.

23. waiting to exhale « empty garden - August 5, 2008

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24. Jorc - August 5, 2008

I do not have a writing partner, actually, no one knows i write. That said, i created a poem about smell…the most anticipated smell i can think of right now! sorry i had to skip the collaboration part, it sounds fun.

waiting to exhale

jorc

25. Habibi - August 5, 2008

My scent will linger in your nostrils pervading your dreams and haunting your waking hours.

26. Habibi - August 5, 2008

And here’s the link
http://wildgeesecall.blogspot.com/search/label/Bittersweet

27. Blythe - August 6, 2008

Yea for all our smelly poems! Here is my contribution — it’s a little light on the scents, but I did that to get your imagination working. It’s so on purpose. ;)
Vespa tropica

28. Jo - August 6, 2008

a collaboration with Christine, thanks Blythe.

http://florescence.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/collaborationon-smell/

29. Christine - August 6, 2008

Hi, and here’s my link to the co-po Jo and I just wrote. all kinds of scents to ponder.

http://tinyurl.com/6jjxqw

30. A~Lotus - August 6, 2008

I’m writing a collab with my sweetie. Will be posted soon.

31. quilly - August 8, 2008

Well, here is my second offering. I hope you all like it.

The Essence of You

32. A~Lotus - August 9, 2008

http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/14993.html

Here is mine with J. I. (though still a draft). I find it kind of challenging, yet interesting to work with someone who primarily writes prose.

33. David - August 11, 2008

http://davidnotes.com/2008/01/15/mother/


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