get your poem on #18
by Juliet Wilson
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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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Thanks for the inspiration. Here’s my tree-related verse:
Yard Yarns
Yes, thank you Juliet, I ended up writing a different one……..here it is:
http://florescence.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/a-tree-speaks/
I loved doing this. Thanks for the prompt, Juliet!
Here is mine:
numbing nirvana
I have two at
http://artpredator.wordpress.com/
1) untitled
http://artpredator.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/spring-poem/
and
2) “I’d Rather Be An Oak than a Eucalyptus”
http://artpredator.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/i-would-rather-be-an-oak-than-a-eucalyptus/
BTW, how do you make the titles of the poems link? do you have to know html? did I miss the instructions somewhere?
Who wants to be a tree?
Branches of Life
Here’s mine:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/03/barking.html
spellbound
i had fun with this one…
here’s mine.. inspired by one of my studies in college
http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/03/lament-of-rubber-tree.html
I have a poem about Bristlecone Pines.
Rose
xo
http://dewyknickers.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/carbon-trading/
here’s my try.
http://wordsfromanauthor.blogspot.com/2008/03/read-write-poem-prompt_16.html
And mine: Chestnut-backed Chickadees in the Oregon White Oak.
Nice prompt, Juliet!
I had to find you in the swamp, Art, with all those links.:-) Post as many links as you want, but do it one comment at a time.
There’s simple code to for the linked title, I’ll email you a sample you can see, and modify.
Thank you! My poem is Tree=Life. I look forward to doing some reading! Thanks Juliet!
I often write as or about trees:
Arboreal Desperation
Juliet already mentioned this last week (thanks!), but I’d also like to encourage everyone with tree-related poems to submit your links to the Festival of the Trees, which will be hosted next month on a Brazilian blog – our first bilingual edition! Call f0r Submissions
For my own submission, I don’t have anything new yet, but here’s an old poem that fits the bill: Confession of the Gallows Tree.
Hey, everyone!
Ophelia falls from a Bradford Pear Tree in Georgia.
Hi all,here is mine:
my poem
love-bd
Here is my effort…
http://semi-retired.livejournal.com/23400.html
Late on this obe, but had to submit even though I call it a draft -
http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/03/roots.html
This was fun but went in a totally weird direction.
<a
href=”http://lindaspoetry.blogspot.com/2008/03/trees.html”White Birch Tree
hm…what the heck did I do wrong? I’ll try again. Oh, I forgot the bracket before White. Duh!
White Birch Tree
O.K., here’s a new one: Legerdemain
I’ve been lax about prompts lately, but I do have 12 March 02008 – Snapshot Poem
a tree’s lament
Disappointment
[...] In response to the Read Write Poem prompt, “be a tree.” Other responses are here. [...]
Awakening
There was only one tree I was feeling for this one.
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/03/stand-sure.html
On the other hand, I guess there was another tree in me after all…
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/03/one-night-only.html
This came out of the last two prompts; trees and repetition both grow poems, and they’re both tough. The seaker isn’t a tree, but she’s kin to one.
It’s here, and thanks.
This might be a little unusual, but then again, so am I.
http://beansthought.blogspot.com/2008/03/be-tree.html
Somehow the poems got mixed up. This my poem for Read Write Poem.
my poem
Thanks for your comments on “Mourning Dove” but that poem was for Weekend Wordsmith. lol
Melanie-bd
[...] This poem was inspired by readwritepoem’s latest prompt – to write a poem from the point of view of a tree. To see what other poets have done with the same prompt, click here. [...]
Here’s mine
tree life
A fun prompt to work with
Mother as Oak Tree
This was probably one of my favorite prompts of all time. I love trees. I love imagining I am something else, or imagining what something else might say.
[...] This poem is based on the prompt from readwritepoem. [...]
Here is my poem, Tree Song.
Another Snapshot Poem, Spring Equinox
here’s my small poem, almost like 2 haikus:
http://makeshiftwords.blogspot.com/2008/03/spring-17th-street.html
Hello Everyone!
I’m new, gautami tripathy guided me here.
Here’s my contribution:
http://jeques.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/be-the-best-that-you-could-be/
I wish you well.
~ Jeques