get your poem on #14
by Jill Crammond Wickham
Here we are with Get Your Poem On #14. From now until midnight one week from today, comments on this post will be open, so you can leave a permalink (one per comment, please!) to your blog post for this week’s contribution.
We hope you took the time to write something based on the “ode to the body” prompt, but we won’t cut off our nose to spite your face if you decided to go in another direction this week.
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Wear it loud, wear it proud! Display the Read Write Poem badge on your site. Just click here or on the image above to get the code! read write poem news- yes, yes, here’s another virtual book tour stop for ‘a walk through the memory palace’
February 6, 2010 | 11:37 amFind the latest tour stop for Pamela Johnson Parker’s debut collection, A Walk Through the Memory Palace at Jillypoet, Jill Crammond Wickham’s blog, where you can find an interview with Pamela that discusses how she creates manuscripts.
Previous stops include Daniel Romo at his blog, Peyote Soliloquies and James Brush at his blog, Coyote Mercury.
You can find all our plans for the tour here.
- the best of the web is in our ranks
February 6, 2010 | 11:35 amSarah J. Sloat’s poem,”Attending the Tasting” (published in The Literary Bohemian) has been selected for Best of the Web 2010. Congratulations, Sarah!
- another (w00t!) read write poem member on the joe milford poetry show
February 6, 2010 | 11:34 amOn the Joe Milford Poetry Show tomorrow (Feb. 6): W.F. Roby at 9 AM (PST). Find the show here!
Joe describes Will as a “great language poet and bad-ass.”
- ‘literary podcasting made simple with wordpress.com’
February 6, 2010 | 11:33 amDave Bonta has published a how-to article that might be of interest to WordPress users: “Literary Podcasting Made Simple with WordPress.com,” based on his and Beth Adams’ experience at Qarrtsiluni.
Thanks, Dave, for continuing to help make the community aware of technological resources that can expand our art.
- the latest (virtual) book tour stop for ‘a walk through the memory palace’
February 3, 2010 | 3:53 pmThe latest tour stop has been posted for Pamela Johnson Parker’s debut collection, A Walk Through the Memory Palace. Find out how Daniel Romo responded to the work at his blog, Peyote Soliloquies.
James Brush provided our first tour stop at his blog, Coyote Mercury.
You can find all our plans for the tour here.
- planning for napowrimo in april, and you are invited!
February 2, 2010 | 6:12 pmHello, hello dear Read Write Poem community members! We are in the planning stages for NaPoWriMo. (What? Is that a groan I hear, or an excited exclamation?)
We are planning another prompt-every-day for those folks who love to write a daily poem in April (which is, as most of you know, National Poetry Month in the United States — although there is an international following of writing poetry every day in April, too, so it is not just about the States).
Anyway! This is a call for prompts because we want to run your ideas, one every day, in April. So here’s what to do:
- Prompts must be no more than 250 words, and we will take the first 30 that we receive.
- Include “NaPoWriMo Prompt” in the subject line of your email as well as your username (e.g., the name you use when you log in) so we can match you up with your prompt and give you the link love.
- Email your submission (in the body of the email — no attachments please) to prompts (at) readwritepoem (dot) org!
We’ll let you know when we’ve got the 30, but don’t delay because it takes a lot of time to format the posts and we want to be ready come April Fools’ Day. Woohoo!
- new senior contributors at read write poem
February 2, 2010 | 11:51 amWe are thrilled to announce that Ren Powell and Dave Jarecki are moving into the senior contributor role at Read Write Poem. Both have been writing feverishly for the site, as well as providing ideas for content and for the community as a whole. In short, they make this site a more lively, and better, place.
Ren and Dave will fill the roles vacated by Carolee Sherwood and Jill Crammond Wickham, who have moved into the manager role.
Everyone please thank Ren and Dave for their hard work and commitment to Read Write Poem.
- rounding out the virtual book tour of sarah j. sloat’s ‘in the voice of a minor saint’
January 31, 2010 | 1:53 pmOur last stop on the Virtual Book Tour of Sarah J. Sloat’s In the Voice of a Minor Saint is with Ren Powell. Find Ren’s review at More Babel.
Joseph Harker provided our first stop in December, and you can find David Moolten’s review at Edible Detritus. David’s was followed by Dave Jarecki’s. Dave’s review is at his blog. Find Jill Crammond Wickham’s at Jillypoet: Mom Trying to Write.
In case you missed the introduction, we are (virtually) hosting Sarah J. Sloat’s In the Voice of a Minor Saint. For complete tour information, such as how you can get your own copy of the collection or how you can get involved in future tours, read this post.
- make your own book: get off the computer and onto the paper
January 30, 2010 | 4:19 pmBeth Adams has posted her latest project at The Cassandra Pages. “A Handmade Book” may not explicate all the details of bookbinding, but Beth shows readers the “Secret Belgian Binding.” It’s a beautiful as well as inspiring post.
If you would like more detailed instructions, Google “secret Belgian bookbinding” and find sites such as this one. Or look for a local book arts class for hands-on instruction.
As Beth says, ” … it did me good to get away from the computer and feel my hands at work!”
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Here’s mine, written before I discovered the prompt, but appropriate nonetheless:
Scapulimancy
Here’s mine for this week – I can’t decide whether I think it’s successful or not, but it is what it is.
Sacred Ground
i had fun with this.. i consentrated on cadence.. i hope it really is an ode…
at this moment
What a great prompt to get us thinking about how miraculous our bodies are, how we can love even those parts we think we hate or wish to tweak:
Ode to Hips
I don’t know if I did it right.
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/02/ode-for-convoluted-crevices.html
First time:
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/02/ode.html
not really an ode, but its about a body part
find out what it is
http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/02/polka-dots.html
My subject is the brain. Here it is:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/ode-to-the-brain
I wrote an Ode to a newspaper article this morning. Meh. But I had fun!
And if anyone has the stomach for it, a few months back I wrote an Ode to Scrapple, which was also quite bodily.
here’s mine, i actually prefer eyes, but this was easier to write:)
http://wordsfromanauthor.blogspot.com/2008/02/read-write-poem-prompt.html
Sorry – I forgot and put two links into my comment, landing it in the moderation queue. Let me try again.
Ode to a newspaper article.
[...] Written for the Read Write Poem prompt, an ode on the body. Links to other responses can be found here. [...]
I wrote a pleiades, not an ode. It’s a little confection intended to brighten up your Monday.
feet
Holding Her Heart In Her Hand, The Wife Discovers She Has Just Made Another Mess To Clean Up
It isn’t an ode, per say, but it started out as one!
Thanks for the inspiration. Here’s mine: This Haiku Has Legs
This was a cool prompt! Thanks!
My entry
Thank you for this prompt, and for those odes. I spent some time marvelling at the way Neruda celebrates and deepens cockles and mussels and root bulbs without overromanticizing them, and wishing for a bowl of that chowder, and not sure I would find the kind of celebration I wanted. I wanted something specific, a particular body, and a reason for it, something as gallant and understated and glowing and even sad as his shallots.
And then today at work, a woman and a rose bush came suddenly to mind, out of a story i heard once by chance. I guarantee it’s not the story you think it is either. It’s here. Many parts of many bodies, vintage and beautiful.
This isn’t an ode, but it does respond to the prompt: They Do So Much More Than Catch Sweat
Here’s my poem Dedicated to my ‘body doubles’, i.e., duos-in-perfect-positive-correlation
Hi, thanks for the prompt, mine’s more code than ode but I guess ‘they’re’ still trying to find my brain…
http://sewina.blogspot.com/2008/02/im-fighting-back-ive-got-diagnostic.html
Baby..It’s been a long time…
http://quietaboutalotofthings.blogspot.com/2008/02/ode-to-my-bodyat-least-its-wrapper.html
Please excuse the abscence. I believe I may have angered SOMBODY’s God.
Sorry, my bad.
Just for fun — Humongous
Here is mine, written prior to reading the prompt- a body part has been included though it certainly is not a love poem-nor an ode for that matter….
what I have to say
[...] 18, 2008 in Poetry, poems, read write poem, write What I have to say my mouth is clamped shut I cannot write because I cannot hear what I have to [...]
Here is mine to the Shared Body:
http://beansthought.blogspot.com/2008/02/prompt-body.html
I at least have a start to an ode here:
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/02/ode.html
Can’t wait to read what the rest of you have posted!
I’m not sure if anyone will get either why I think this is an ode, or why it’s to the body, but here it is:
http://koshtra.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html#6540359570531927254
http://1802eggs.blogspot.com/2008/02/147.html
thanks for letting me play. this is an ode that sort of turns on irony- forgive me.
one more:
http://different-eye.blogspot.com/2008/02/518.html
Can I still get in on this? And I hope it works– PSALTERY. (Just click on my name. I still cannot make a link).
here’s pepek’s link
we’re having a little technical difficulty with her name/log-in above …
About my tattoo
http://amwpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/02/readwritepoem-ode-to-body.html