(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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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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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. [...]