get your poem on #21
by Deb Scott
It’s post time at Read Write Poem, this week about aunts you have know, or others – familiar or unfamiliar.
Or maybe you wrote about something else entirely. We care less about what got you started than reading what you wrote. Actually, we do like to hear what got you started. We like all things poetry-related, and then some.
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March 17, 2010 | 11:37 am“The new math of poetry is driven not by reader demand for great or even good poetry but by the demand of myriads of aspiring poets to experience the thrill of ‘publication.’ “
So says David Alpaugh (along with a lot of other thoughtful things) in “The New Math of Poetry,” published last month in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Read the article and let us talk. What say you?
- it’s a wrap: last stop on our (virtual) tour of molly gaudry’s ‘anatomy for the artist’
March 15, 2010 | 3:28 pm“I was physically drained by this poem. I understood it on my terms. If a poet’s innovative craftsmanship with form, word, sound, imagery, metaphor, can show me my own bones, then I want to read more of that poet’s work.”
Just a snippet from Wanda McCollar’s response to Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist.” Look for the entire post on Synecdochic Stuff and find the rest of our tour, below.
The first stop was Donna Vorreyer at her blog. Next up was Catherine Fitchett at Poetry Chook, Lawrence Gladeview at Righteous Rightings and Ren Powell at More Babel.
You can find complete information about this chapbook and tour here, including a link to where to find it and read it for yourself, online.
Next month’s tour will start mid-April. Don’t miss it!
- the (very) latest on our (virtual) tour of molly gaudry’s ‘anatomy for the artist’
March 11, 2010 | 2:25 pmRen Powell has just posted her take on Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist.” Find the post at More Babel.
And, in case you missed it, the first stop was Donna Vorreyer’s, at her blog. Next up was Catherine Fitchett at Poetry Chook and then Lawrence Gladeview at Righteous Rightings.
You can find information about this chapbook and tour here, including a link to where to find it and read it for yourself, online.
- a new poem every day in april (requires reading, not writing)
March 10, 2010 | 6:33 pm“Beginning April 1, Poets.org sends one new poem to your inbox each day to celebrate National Poetry Month. The poems have been selected from new books published in the spring.” Sign up here.
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Relative Terms
Thanks very much for the inspiration. Here’s my Crazy Aunts.
I wrote this one:
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/04/aunt.html
Here’s mine called Aunt Ada:
http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2008/04/napowrimo-2.html
I’ve written about aunts before. Here’s another poem on a different subject:
http://pipssqueaks.blogspot.com/2008/04/napowrimo-7-healing.html
i did so enjoy this one.. at first i just couldnt imagine what to write about… and then it hit me….
we do in fact have a strange old bird in the family…..
I wrote about the Greatest aunt in the Universe! Guess who!
Wicked Witch
I’m really looking forward to reading about everyone’s aunts. Here’s mine:
Visiting Crystal
I had to go to a funeral out-of-town at the end of last week so didn’t check the prompt for this week until yesterday. I was tickled to see that it was “aunt” because I had just written a poem while visiting and talking with my Aunt Dotty.
whoops…i posted in the wrong place…
here is my poem for aunts…
http://itsacanadiangeek.blogspot.com/2008/04/post-poem-april-seven-aunts.html
Fun prompt! Aunt Nancy’s paddle
I didn’t post an aunt poem — but this is my favorite so far of my NaPoWriMo poems: What’s In My Journal
And — I’ve made a list of prompts for NaPoWriMo, and am posting links to the poems made from them, here: NaPoWriMo Prompts
I wrote about my grandmother, Midge. Deb, I enjoyed the links to all the poems about aunts your provided.
My Grandma Midge
This is a new one, fresh from last Thursday! While not an aunt, he is small and familiar–I wrote about my son and the
“Preschool Share Day Blues”
http://artpredator.wordpress.com
Here is mine for today… aunts of a different sort!
http://reginaclarejane.livejournal.com/55937.html
So nice to see everyone again!
here’s mine, inspired by the tradition of my mom and her sisters making homemade tortellinis for all the holidays.
love knots
Here’s one not about aunts specifically, but about family. Sort of.
http://amwpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/04/belated-napowrimo-day-5.html
Like T.S. Eliot, I also have an Aunt Helyn, except that she’s spelled differently.
http://melstra.livejournal.com/160272.html
You’ll never believe what I found in the attic . . . and what happened to my dear Aunt Mae.
http://nickersandinkblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/caught-to-quick-rhymed-retelling-of.html
Blessings all,
Linda
Nickers and Ink
Giver
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Aunt
Hello, all. Here’s my poem “I See My Aunt” at http://bethandwriting.blogspot.com/ Thanks for posting the idea. I’m trying to write a poem a day for NaPoWriMo, and it’s good to be a part of this community too. Hi from Bluebethley
http://seashelllz.livejournal.com/97069.html
it’s my first time at readwritepoem
here’s my Aunt poem…
“Mt Auntie Em and Uncle Doyle lived in a big white farmhouse…”
done did it!! Love everyone’s works. AnnieH
http://www.tidingsofmagpies.blogspot.com
Just a seedling of an “aunt” poem:
“mother’s baby sister”
Not an ‘aunt’ poem, just my 10th NaPoWriMo entry:
http://moodsandmetaphors.blogspot.com/2008/04/lavender-carnation.html
Here’s one from a Writers in the Schools student called “Aunt Ida’s House.”
http://witsblog.org/2007/06/05/aunt-idas-house/
I wasn’t going to use this yet, because it could also be a Thanksgiving Poem as well. But you guys are worth it.
One of these days, I’ll actually use the prompt! Here’s my latest:
http://bluehairedmary.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/1805639/another-april-poem/
I’d love any feedback!