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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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Jargon it is…
SQL Triolet
Thanks for the inspiration. I’ve used some legal jargon in my “Ode to An Ill-Tempered Felon” limerick.
I wrote a haiku about education financing.
I wrote a love poem about a car.
http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/dpfe/
I’ve written an acrostic using words from the discipline in which I was originally trained. It’s also#24 for NaPoWriMo – yes, I am a little behind.
Chemical Acrostic
Great prompt! But I didn’t use it.
http://slowreads.com/verseFaceRock.html
I have a whole list of jargon words that just didn’t work for this one. I guess someday there will be another poem that uses them.
I don’t usually write about my work, but this is all about my everyday (well, Monday through Friday, anyway).
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/04/manager.html
this may not be “jargon” technically, but it’s about my job.
i’m LAME.
http://ametaznes.livejournal.com/14986.html
about petri dish… and bacteria culture
http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/04/palm-sized-garden.html
http://poetrydaily.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/nightly-passage/
This was such a great prompt; it made me dig deep!
History’s Failing
I’ve been writing other poems in recent weeks, rather than responding to these prompts, but this week I’m back with a prompt response!
Brachot 35a
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2008/04/brachot-35a-we.html
here’s mine, it’s about my daughter and her constant texting.
text
Here is one about tree structures… with both real and made up jargon:
Excerpt from the foliations of the hortolobe
Great idea! And a dangerous one for me. I love unusual words. Loving words is the definition of poet, I know, but it’s a challenge to use oddball ones in ways that enhance and don’t just confuse, you’re absolutely right. I learned that in college, when I happily assumed a whole workshop would know what silage is. If you haven’t happened to grow up around dairy cows, chopped corn in a silo isn’t an every day sort of idea.
I’m hoping this one makes more sense.
Here’s. some fun turning scientific classifications upside down. I made these up, but I tried to follow the Linnaean system.
Following the other theme of the week, it’s a sonnet.
here’s a (short!) poem filled with local place names and creatures–certainly jargon to the uninitiated!
“celebrate”
http://artpredator.wordpress.com
i have another one about where i’m from also filled with local place names that i will put up tomorrow
I wrote a bouts-rimés sonnet using the non-rhyming words listed in the post on sonnets, below. I also used jargon from sculpting, although I’m not a sculptor. Maybe now I’ll become one since I read up on sculpy words. Thanks, Tom!
sand sculpting
mine is here @
http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/04/life.html
On Baha’i Administration: A Sonnet of the Tongue-in-Cheek Variety
Looks like there is a spiritual jargon going on.
So, I went deep too.
http://rscocoloco.blogspot.com
ctrl/alt/del
We has met the enemy and he is us – Pogo
I wrote a bout-rime sonnet using the rhyming set of words – it’s called
Creativity
i work in plumbing and heating…
http://itsacanadiangeek.blogspot.com/2008/04/post-poem-april-sixteen.html
This one is ABOUT jargon . . . . the kind I most want to avoid, but occasionally find my self using, when the darker side arises.
MY MISSPEAK, at Nickers and Ink
Blessings all,
Linda
Nickers and Ink
I’m glad it is over!
My ship sails away….
Check my JARGON POEM from yesterday. An INDUSTRIAL LOVE POEM
C’ya later, alligator, after a while Crocodile.
It was a pleasure and a great way to squeeze the brain by extruding words, syllables and rhymes. GOOD WORK Y’ALL!
http://rscocoloco.blogspot.com
Here is my poem for # 24:
We Are Down:
http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2008/04/napowrimo-18-make-up-for-day-18.html
Come to my operating room for a moment.
http://pciyrtpy.blogspot.com/2008/05/anesthesia-jargon-laying-on-gurney.html
Thanks,
rel
New here….
my first try!
http://theoriginalcoffeecompanyonline.blogspot.com/2008/05/jargon-poetry.html
Oh well, no comments.
No comments,
It’s okay, I’ll take my pen and will write poems for those who can’t hear, who can’t read, who can’t feel but who would understand how trapped souls feel beneath their epidermis. Inner feelings crafted for those with scholar ears is irrelevant for those who can express them with soil in their fingernails.
Poetry is a way to express what the soul feels beneath the layers of skin.
Intellect is beyond that. Words will conglomerate and collide against each other as the ‘poem’ evolves. After all, what we do, say and write will remain as a vestige of our humanity, as a human being. Human enough to be able to use our brain and strike the keys on the keyboard aided by a Microsoft program.
Thank God for Bill Gates!
AHAM BRAHMASMI.
Raul, you know who Sanchez
Good Luck!
Life is so, very short!
I will read you on the other side.
Chalo!
Afraid my mind is dead………
my poem
love-bd
Mine too… based on this (couldn’t leave the comment earlier)
Here’s mine:
http://moodsandmetaphors.blogspot.com/2008/05/psychology.html