(collaborative) read write prompt #57: ’tis the season for sharing
by Nathan Moore
This week’s collaborative prompt will involve a lot of sharing. Think of it as a gift exchange. Do you have a favorite image, song, spoken word piece or poem? Of course you do. What we want you to do is post or link to one of these things on your blog and leave us a link to it in the comments here. Then we’ll choose someone’s favorite and write a poem in response to it.
This way we get to share something we really like and we get to learn a little about each other in the process. Who knows? With any luck some of us will get to find a new favorite poem or song in the process. Remember to read the page here on copyright. Linking to a song or image is usually alright. And it’s best to link to poem at poets.org or a site like that so you’re sure it has been Ok’d for sharing.
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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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Here is my treasured home written before I wrote my own version! I hope someone would tell me about their own abode as well.
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/43818.html
“Diving into the Wreck”, Adrienne Rich:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15228
Here is my favorite poem of all time:
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7087
Wow, Nathan. I’ve never read Moly. It’s powerful! Thanks.
Isn’t it good? I meant to say how much I’ve always liked “Diving into the Wreck.” It’s one of my favorites.
[...] On Read Write Poem this week, the Prompt is “‘Tis the Season for Sharing”. We were encouraged to share a favourite song, image, poem, etc., for others to read and maybe use [...]
I’m sharing with the folks at RWP one of my favourite R.E.M. songs, “Texarkana”. See more on my blog:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/12/12/favourite-things/
Nathan, if we’re talking favourite poems of all time – so difficult – this might be mine:
Anne Sexton
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/annesexton/13093
love this poet, love this poem…
e e cummings
I’d like to give two (poems)…
there are two of them for no other reason than they were toghether on the same post and i could not decide which one to delete…
Both originals and translations is avaliable.
It is worth to mention that more translation of Marin Sorescu by Michael Hamburger are featured by the poetry foundation and also that Sorescu missed getting the Nobel Prize by so little, and just because he died to early that year…
but here they come:
http://amidweststory.blogspot.com/search/label/Sorescu
Hmmm…. everyone’s sharing poems so I thought I’d share a piece of music instead. One of my favourite tangos. It’s called “Naranjo en flor” – literally, “Orange tree in flower” and has a very beautiful mood.
Here’s a link to a really special recording of the song. I think there are poems to be found just in the singers voice and face even if you don’t know what the words mean.
If you do want to know what the words mean, I’ve a post up on my blog which gives a translation and a poem I wrote myself in response.
Ted Kooser, “Walking on Tiptoe” from Delights and Shadows (2004).
I had not read any of his poems before. Not edgy, but simple. Not haiku, but haiku-like.
Another example:
from “The Necktie”
His hands fluttered like birds,
each with a fancy silk ribbon
to weave into their nest, …
Sarah Lindsay is my current favourite poet – I’d like to link to the first poem of hers on Poetry Daily that made me go “aaahh!” but it is not there any more, so here are three others instead
http://www.poems.com/poem.php?date=14168
I particularly like the second of these: “Valhalla Burn Unit on the Moon Callisto”
I took a poem from Maya Angelou:
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/maya_angelou/poems/508
And had written the following:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/05/sleeplessness-trancreated-work.html
Do check it out.
This live musical performance, on this particular night, and the remarkable poignancy of the song’s lyrics, especially given the situation surrounding the performance — broke my heart. I sobbed — shaking.
Hearing the words still brings a lump to my throat, and tears to my eyes! I will never forget this…
I present the live performance and the beautiful poetic lyrics to you here:
“Fragile”
“Melancholy and Mystery of a Street,” by De Chirico, almost all his earlier paintings are great, but this one almost always puts me in a mood to write. Great idea, Nathan!
http://tinyurl.com/5n8ek9
‘Moly’ is an amazing poem, I’ve never read it until now, so thanks for sharing, Nathan. And Gunn’s reading is one I could listen to again and again.
Mine’s something that I ride the bus with:
From “On Earth” by Carolyn Forché (five lines from a 45-page abecedarian poem) found in Blue Hour and thanks to the bus ride home:
between here and here
between hidden points in the soul
between hidden points in the soul born from nothing
between saying and said
beyond what one has oneself done
[...] week at Read Write Poem we are sharing pieces of our favorites (inspiration). It is hard for me to pick favorites. I am a [...]
For anyone still looking for inspiration, there are some absolutely stunning photos at:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/photo-contest/2008-winners?startgallery=1
Just read Diving into the Wreck. It goes so well with the image prompt!
I don’t know why but the following lyrics have been floating in my brain for awhile. I’m not sure exactly what they mean:
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”
Linda -
In the context of the song, “Me & Bobby McGee”, it refers to being totally without, so nothing to loose — ergo, free.
In a more esoteric reading, it might be the state of having no possessions, perceptions, no preconceptions — wholly without anything whatsoever.
Therefore, nothing controlling you, impeding you, restricting you — nothing you need be responsible for… freedom in its most absolute essence.
A pure state of not ‘having’, but ‘only’ being — free!
…rob
[...] and Mystery of a Street,” by De Chirico, which triggered this poem – this is all part of a read write poem prompt where various people shared different poems, pictures or songs that have inspired [...]
[...] This was written is response to Rob Kistner sharing a favorite thing, in this case a song, “Fragile”, by Sting. I was moved and was prompted to write this in response for Read Write Poem #57: ‘Tis the Season for Sharing. Enjoy. [...]