Comments on: get your poem on #29 http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/ Mon, 03 May 2010 01:01:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Rethabile http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1672 Rethabile Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:23:13 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1672 <a href="http://poefrika.blogspot.com/2008/06/my-fathers-killers.html" rel="nofollow">My Father's Killers</a> My Father’s Killers

]]> By: Rob Kistner http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1671 Rob Kistner Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:39:57 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1671 <a href="http://www.image-verse.com/jack" rel="nofollow"><b><i>jack's trek</i></b><a> - an american sentence jack’s trek – an american sentence

]]> By: blythe http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1670 blythe Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:06:08 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1670 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/ 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/

]]> By: Felicity http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1669 Felicity Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:25:50 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1669 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 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

]]> By: Rachel http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1668 Rachel Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:23:31 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1668 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 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

]]> By: Nicole Nicholson http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1667 Nicole Nicholson Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:57:04 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1667 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 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

]]> By: sister AE http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1666 sister AE Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:00:18 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1666 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 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

]]> By: renkat http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1665 renkat Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:32:45 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1665 Are you looking at www.protestpoems.org? This is very important to me, so please do follow up on this! Ren Are you looking at http://www.protestpoems.org? This is very important to me, so please do follow up on this!

Ren

]]> By: renkat http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1664 renkat Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:31:24 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1664 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!! 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!!

]]> By: Read Write Poem http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1663 Read Write Poem Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:29:18 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1663 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 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

]]> By: Donald Harbour http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1660 Donald Harbour Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:36:25 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1660 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..... <em>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! </em> 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!

]]> By: mary http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1662 mary Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:22:59 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1662 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/ 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/

]]> By: mary http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1661 mary Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:08:22 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1661 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/ 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/

]]> By: durable pigments http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1659 durable pigments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:10:55 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1659 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/ 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/

]]> By: art predator http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1658 art predator Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:58:18 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1658 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 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

]]> By: Christine http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1657 Christine Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:49:58 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1657 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. <a href="http://mariacristina.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/659/" rel="nofollow">how your soul might leave your body </a> 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

]]> By: Jennifer http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1656 Jennifer Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:28:57 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1656 I've revised a free verse into a villanelle http://www.magpiedays.com/2008/06/poetic-transformation/ I’ve revised a free verse into a villanelle

http://www.magpiedays.com/2008/06/poetic-transformation/

]]> By: Lirone http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1647 Lirone Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:47:15 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1647 I've condensed one of my favourite poems into a haiku - interesting and challenging! <a href="http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/condensing-a-poem/" rel="nofollow">Valentine</a> I’ve condensed one of my favourite poems into a haiku – interesting and challenging!

Valentine

]]> By: chicklegirl http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1654 chicklegirl Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:58:15 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1654 What a fun post! And I am pleased with where it took me: <a href="http://chicklegirl.blogspot.com/2008/06/mix-and-match.html" rel="nofollow">Beneath the Hawthorn</a> What a fun post! And I am pleased with where it took me:

Beneath the Hawthorn

]]> By: Nicole Nicholson http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/06/02/get-your-poem-on-29/comment-page-1/#comment-1646 Nicole Nicholson Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:19:42 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=163#comment-1646 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 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

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