get your poem on #42
by Jill Crammond Wickham
Hey. It’s Monday just after midnight, CST, and time to open the comments to your fresh poetry.
Did you catch some words, using this week’s prompt, or try something else altogether? Post and link and have yourself a little poetry-party.
Be sure to check back through the week and find links to other people’s poetic-stuff that they’ve chosen to share for Read Write Poem! In the States it’s a holiday (Labor Day weekend), the last fling-weekend before many schools start back in. So some folks may be a little late around here.
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And in case you missed it, there is other poetic action available.
A chainpoem riffing on Tom’s last article about renga and renku.
A free-write exercise, in collaboration with red Ravine.
Please, link back here in your posts, either with a hyperlink to Read Write Poem or by using the badge in your post. Sidebar links are great but it helps our “internet health” when you link in every post you contribute to the project. And please add “Read Write Poem” in your tags, if you don’t mind.
For the new folks: Please take a few moments to read the About pages, including our Copyrights page. If you have any questions about the project after reading through those pages, email us at info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.
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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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Hey, this was so much fun, I might do another one! (Plus, it’s been a LONG time since I’ve been the first poster!) Happy first week of school for you students out there..
http://stoneymoss.org/2008/08/31/confronting-tears/
hmmm, so I get to post first:
http://amidweststory.blogspot.com/2008/08/to-n-readwritepoem42.html
a poem that owes to Saint John of the Cross, Martin Heidegger, Jaime Saenz and the pomegranate.
I caught a title” The Taxidermist
and there is an older one:
http://amidweststory.blogspot.com/2008/08/nim-from-notebooks.html
this owes much to the words I found in a news article about another kind of immigrant deportation. I don’t know about my account on the issue as literary value, but the subject is worth a quick read and a thought…
Here is my contribution:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-catch-words-haphazardly.html
Here’s mine:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/08/crazy-bird-music.html
You’ll find mine in this post:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/tony-on-celebs-britain-more
Enjoy.
Here’s mine: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/photo-factory
I wrote it after reading “The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me” by Delmore Schwartz. They might share a theme of ’something that connects us.’
Found In Fragments
I caught some words from a Jim Morrison poem that turned into a Doors song. It’s here:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/08/28/nightmare/
-Nicole
Here’s mine: explosion
Jill, this is a great prompt, because it guides the writer consciously along the path of inspiration, and it allows us to honor the poets who have come before us, or who walk alongside us. Plus, I like how each poem I’ll read today will be completely different, coming from a unique source.
Shadow Boxing
OK, listen. This is not a poem, but it *is* a poem in process. Come watch it unfold. It unfolds slowly, though, so be prepared to check in over the course of hours. Or days. Or weeks. Probably not weeks. Anyway, here’s the link:
a funnelcakes work in progress
Here’s mine:
Faith in the Flesh
Thanks, Jill, for the prompt. I returned to a poem by Bob Hickok from the May 17 New Yorker which inspired my project “50 States” and I wrote a new one today, “50 States of Optimism.” My blog has a link to another poem in this project I did as well as a copy of Bob Hickok’s original inspiration.
http://artpredator.wordpress.com
*whistles innocently*
http://fallenverses.org/2008/09/01/read-write-poem-42-sign-in-or-register/
spectacle
I’m still working on my poem in between anatomy and microbiology classes! @_@
Okay, here it is!!
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/21119.html
[...] calm autumn comes converging unrestrained wind smell summer passage * * * * * * * * * * ReadWritePoem #42: inspired by another’s poem. photo: Waves, olpron, [...]
another excellent prompt hope and a half
I caught a word from the “random prompts” here. The word was doppelganger. Here’s my take…
http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com/2008/09/benediction-in-sourdough.html
Thanks to those who checked out my new poem for this prompt–wanted to let you know I turned it into an iMoive that’s up on YouTube or ou can watch it on my blog!
http://artpredator.wordpress.com