read write prompt #40: be in the moment
by Juliet Wilson
The world can sometimes seem so full of distractions that we don’t notice what is around us. This week’s prompt offers an opportunity to sit still and focus, to be in the moment and to use that as inspiration for writing poetry.
Either sit in your usual writing place, focus on what is around you there and use that as inspiration. Or take a trip out to an inspiring place — whether that is your local park, a riverside walk or a crowded city square or nightclub — and write about what you find around you. Concentrate on what you see or hear or what you feel.
Many writers feel that Japanese forms such as haiku, senryu or tanka are ideal forms to use when you want to ‘be in the moment’ — so you can use these forms to respond to this prompt, but you don’t need to! You can just as well write a stream of consciousness piece or a prose poem, or whatever you want!
However you choose to write about your moment, remember to come back on Monday to share your link!
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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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Yay!! Carpe Diem!
I’m going to see if I can find somewhere different and just write…
That’ll be nice and dreamy.
I’ll definitely post this prompt since summer school will be over for me!
Great prompt and great reminder to come back to the moment! Thanks Juliet!
A perfect use for identi.ca. Awesome.
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This is one I really like, and the GA State Botanical Gardens is a good place to write it!
Also…Just thought I’d tell you that I am just finishing up a collaborative poem with two other poets…it will be on my blog, as well as on theirs. It was a WONDERFUL opportunity, and we liked it so much we’re gonna start a collaborative blog where people can send us collaborative work to post on our site! We are quite excited about it…
I guess we’re on the same track here Holly. I just left a link to the poem after the funnelcakes interview.
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I gave it a try sitting in my room! and here’s the link
http://musingsbytrinath.blogspot.com/2008/08/distance.html
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Hello, Juliet. Should I leave the link for my ‘in the moment’ poem here?
http://gingatao.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/not-all-men-are-dead/
It is called ‘not all men are dead’ and it is about an artist and his subject being united in a moment.
Hey, Paul (I’m not Juliet, but can answer this one) and Trinath.
Leave your link in a comment to a post that goes up just after midnight Monday (CST). Folks won’t see it here (as easily).
It will say “get your poem on #40″. That’s where you do it. (Come back, both of you.)
Okeydokey, thankyou Deb.
I am happy I found this site. I gave this prompt a try with a glance at the parental challenge of letting go when school starts.
here is the link: http://thruchocolateeyes.com/?p=1335.
Thank you.