get your poem on #29
by Ren Powell
Did you mix and match this week? Did you try a new poetic form on, or try something outside your usual style? Let us know, and put a link to your poem in the comments.
Was your inspiration from something or somewhere else entirely? Tell us about it.
(We’re curious: Did you get to visit protestpoems.org 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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Penelope, originally written as a pantoum, reworked as a sonnet.
I haven’t been here in awhile….but this one was fun!
http://stoneymoss.blogspot.com/2008/05/switcheroo.html
First I posted my first ever sestina, which was a reworking of an earlier poem. You can read this here:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/05/evening-in-malawi.html
Then I reworked the sestina as a haiku but I’ll post the link for that in a separate comment!
The haiku reworking of my sestina can be read here:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/06/haiku.html
I look forward to reading everyone else’s poems!
I also wrote my first ever ghazal recently and posted it here: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/05/moonstruck.html
Here mine: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/the-dance. It was a villanelle that become some stanzas based on renku. Let me add that I’ve just started to read about renku so “based on” is the phrase to remember.
This was fun. The sense of my two poems changed completely. Thanks for reading.
http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/round/
Thanks for the great prompt. I wrote a sestina called the “Land Of Sorrows” but in the form of two haiku per stanza.
Hello!
I rewrote one of my Chaucerian roundels, “Katie, Bar the Kitchen Door”, into a hay(na)ku chain entitled “Iraq”. You can find it here:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/06/02/iraq/
-Nicole
What a fun post! And I am pleased with where it took me:
Beneath the Hawthorn
I’ve condensed one of my favourite poems into a haiku – interesting and challenging!
Valentine
I’ve revised a free verse into a villanelle
http://www.magpiedays.com/2008/06/poetic-transformation/
I wrote a ghazal, my second try at this form. For the theme I went to Rick Mobb’s site again, at Mine enemy grows older.
how your soul might leave your body
I take up the challenge and offer you:
notes on a conceptual poetry conference in Tucson May 28-31 written as a conceptual poem with the constraint that I copy word for word verbatum my notes…in 2 parts. Part 1 (days 1 & 2: Charles Bernstein, Tracie Morris, Marjorie Perloff, Kenny Goldsmith, Craig Dworkin, etc) is posted now. Part 2 (Day 3: the above with Christian Bok and more) should be posted soon.
http://artpredator.wordpress.com
I’m a big fan of humorous verse and satire, so in that spirit: three variations (of decreasing length) of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18. (lipogram, limerick, haiku) Definitely planning to use this prompt in the future for a more serious verse.
http://durablepigments.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/29-three-variations-on-sonnet-18/
Just a poem I wrote. But maybe I “mixed it up” by using art as inspiration?
http://bluehairedmary.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/1817480/seen/
Here’s what I wrote most recently. I guess I “mixed it up” by using art as inspiration?
http://bluehairedmary.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/1817480/seen/
Ren…I went to protestpoem.org…I had something I wanted to submit, however I found the site submission form another commercial gimmick to get one to sign in and upgrade. There was advertising, gheez. I protest protestpoem.org…
Thanks for the invite, but no thanks…..
Comment from RWP: Donald, your experience is not the usual one. Please reply to Ren’s request for more information. We think you missed the right link.
Other readers: Please look at protestpoems.org yourself. It is a fine site in both the way it operates and the motives behind it!
That’s strange, Donald, and completely out of my own personal experience at protestpoems.org.
I submitted a poem and didn’t get any of that. It was very easy to do, without any of what you describe.
Hmmmm…did you use the link from here?
…deb
Hi Donald,
I have no idea what you are talking about! Please let me know what this is about. I have no commercial affiliations or advertising at all. Please let me know if someone has somehow hijacked my domain!
All the website offers is a place to sign up for emails for new protest actions. I have nothing to “upgrade” to, for goodness sake.
Please take another look at let me know what you see. This is disturbing!!
Are you looking at http://www.protestpoems.org? This is very important to me, so please do follow up on this!
Ren
I won’t have time to read other submissions until the weekend, but wanted to slip mine in sooner than later.
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/06/walk-through-2-forms.html
And I decided to do it again. This was fun!
I took “Arizona, Remembered”, a poem of mine written in three stanzas of rhyme royal, and rewrote it as a hay(na)ku chain poem called “Desert”. See it here:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/06/04/desert/
-Nicole
I didn’t manage to respond to the RWP prompt this week, but I did write the latest in my series of Torah poems:
Voice (Naso)
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2008/06/this-weeks-torah-poem-voice-naso.html
Hello,
This poem is untitled. I seem to have a lot of difficulty with titling my poems. Any help would be very welcome.
http://mandatoryhappiness.blogspot.com/2008/06/we-run-from-things-were-scared-of-from.html
Great prompt, Ren!
I don’t do much work in forms, so I didn’t have much to choose from. But I used an old sestina to make a group of cinquains.
The poem ended up rather depressing, just as a warning:
http://thisisonlytemporary.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/read-write-poem-6/
jack’s trek – an american sentence
My Father’s Killers