get your poem on #40
by Juliet Wilson
Were you in the moment to write this week’s poem? Whether you wrote haiku, tanka or anything else, in the moment or not, leave a link here to your blog and your poem so we can all read it.
From now until midnight one week from today, comments on this post are open. And check back through the week and see what other participants have written.
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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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That eternal moment in our life:
plunging in the tunneled abyss
It was a sad moment, but the first inspiration I’ve had to write in a while:
Frank’s Farewell
5 inspired by my SF roadtrip last weekend to WordPress’s “camp” for bloggers!
http://artpredator.wordpress.com
Here is a moment from Saturday: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/712-pm-aug-16
Here’s mine, not haiku as you might expect, but still ‘in the moment’:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/08/suburban-garden.html
You’ll find mine in this post:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/tony-on-big-wax-more
Enjoy.
[...] for the RWP Prompt – Get Your Poem on #40 [...]
Hi everyone. My offering this week is a Haiku moment.
http://maekitso.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/blue-periwinkles/
Cheers,
Brad
I often write haiku and senryu, but I tried specifically to capture “moments” in these: http://m0nkeyboy.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/moments-fragments/
[...] More moments here. [...]
I try to get in the moment here
http://www.magpiedays.com/2008/08/right-here/
Difficult week here–didn’t have a chance to do the assignment. Sharing this older piece below, in part because it seems relevant to the assignment (I was SO in the moment during the event described at the beginning of the piece), and in part because I was recently reminded of this, seeing a friend’s photograph of the bats flying from the Congress Avenue bridge in Austin.
Sunday Night at the Alligator Grill
A HaikuSatin
Here is mine. It was a good excercise for me since usually I write abstract stuff (my major has a say in that) or narative.
http://amidweststory.blogspot.com/2008/08/tanka.html
I am waiting to read everybody else’s…
I captured a moment from the Olympics. Thanks, Juliet!
prana in the pool
Here’s my offering for this week:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/08/17/sunday-morning-in-five-parts/
-Nicole
I wrote this one a minute ago. Thanks for making me enjoy the moment!
Here’s mine – monkey mind
[...] And when I saw the prompt on readwritepoem, to write a poem about being in the moment, I wanted to find a way to convey this feeling. I’ve also tried my hand at a lune chain for the first time. You can read how other poets have responded to the same prompt here. [...]
I have two “in the moment poems”
1.
http://corinnez.blogspot.com/2008/08/heat-warning-haiku.html
2.
http://corinnez.blogspot.com/2008/08/honesty.html
I fished C.Elizabeth out of the filter.
Don’t you get water-logged. Post one link per comment (as often as you would like).
~Deb
here’s my “in the moment” haikus while visiting my aunt in the suburbs this weekend:
suburbia
Here’s my “in the moment” haiku:
http://throwshiswords.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/poem-in-the-moment/
My 4 haiku! Enjoy!
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/15771.html
Well I hope I was in the moment!
my poem
love-bd
i, a protestant, at the coptic church
My first go here >.<
http://ellenlenore.blogspot.com/2008/08/read-write-poem-in-moment.html
An attempt at http://musingsbytrinath.blogspot.com/2008/08/box.html
I have a poem about the artist and his subject bound together in a moment.
http://gingatao.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/not-all-men-are-dead/
[...] week’s prompt at Read Write Poem is Juliet’s, who suggest we write in the moment. Here are other links to this idea. My moments this week (so far) resolved around rain, summer turning to fall too soon [...]
I’m so excited.
About this prompt. About seeing new and veteran RWPers here. And about WD and my new Stoney Moss. I get to make “ping backs” now. Look. Bottom of the page: “In the moment: haiku / Stoney Moss”.
Come look around. (There’s a little dust, and paint touch-ups are needed. But still. It’s fresh.)
Thanks for an inspiring prompt, as always, Juliet.
something inspired by the red ravine prompt… couldn’t fit it into that prompt but surely fit this one… eternity smiled
[...] moment has past memorize within my soul signaling anew * * * * * * readwritepoem prompt #40: be in the moment; photo: only a foolish bird bark at a flying dog, payl, [...]
Mine is here…late, and a bit simplistic maybe….
In this moment
jorc
empty garden
Maybe, friends would like to visit my blogs and comment on my haiku.
Here is one:
Sultry heat
midsummer lethargy:
dog star shines
–R.K.SINGH
My blogs:
http://rksingh.blogspot.com
http://profrksingh.blogspot.com
–R.K.SINGH
Been a long time here…but had to put this one out even if I am really late -
http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/08/moments.html