get your poem on #60
by January O’Neil
Did you set writing goals for 2009? Let us know what your top goal is, below in the comments.
If you wrote a poem you want to share, do that. If you wrote anything about ends or beginnings, you can link that, too. Remember: we want you to write poetry, or write about poetry, any way you want to. (You can leave lots of links, just do one per comment.)
But we really hope you set some concrete writing goals.
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.
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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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I took two words from the image prompt:
somebody watching you!
Will write about my resolutions too and post it here.
Happy New Year all of you!
I wrote a little about my rather vague goals, and wrote a poem using some of the words from the Wordle which touches on my feelings about poetry this year
Summer, Here
You’ll find mine in this post:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/tony-on-infection-more
Enjoy.
For word prompt #7:
geranium
(Note: This was written in the memory the life partner of U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, Carol Adair, who died yesterday.)
I took five words from image prompt #7. skin
here is a link to my writing goals for 2009 which can be found on my companion blog Watermaid Musing.
writing goals 2009
nothing from a prompt, but here are some i wrote last week…
http://asquarepegbreaksfree.blogspot.com/2009/01/road-poetry-and-last-of-vacation-photos.html
I did the Wordle…
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/01/crimson-geraniums.html
I did the Wordle prompt too: Bombast.
My goals:
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/55603.html
I also did the Wordle prompt: Crimson Signature
Is my resolutions somewhere out there?
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/01/setting-about-routine.html
participating in read write word #7 range of view
This has nothing to do with my resolution, but I was just watching MSNBC a few minutes ago and to the podium comes freshly impeached Gov. Rob Blagojevich, and, believe it or not, he reads his favorite poem of resolution, from
Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Ulysses
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Very strange.
I posted a poem about beginnings and endings.
Avoiding the Woolly Worms
Here’s a most ambitious creative goal.
I have a major project I’ve been pursuing for some time now. The project has been hampered by false starts, inconsistent personal confidence, and other deeply frustrating obstacles — such as the tragic death of a son, and my heart attack.
I want to create a ‘coffee-table’ type book, much like my Image & Verse (I&V). This book idea actually gave birth to my I&V blog as a way to help me develop and refine the concept.
The I&V book will be large size, hard cover, elegant paper stock, and high quality production and printing. The book will contain a larger number of my writings, artworks, and photographs — many never posted on I&V.
I want the book to reflect the look, feel, and the varied creative content of I&V. For example, the book’s pages will be matte black. The print type will be a light color, perhaps creme or tan or grey — and the fonts will be unique, but easily readable.
The title fonts, and the first letter of each poem and short story, will be a different font style and color from the font style used in the body of each piece — and will be larger in size.
Each reproduction of my original artwork and photographs will be a 6-color, high-resolution plate.
A CD/DVD of my “Visceral Voice” spoken word recordings will accompany the book as an inside back cover insert.
This is a borderline obsession, and haunts me always. I will make this project happen before I exit this mortal plane — so why not this year!
9. Carole
You go, Rob! This is most definitely the year. I feel you on this one.
For sure.
My goal this year is also a large one… I quit my day job so that I can transition into making my living as a writer. My day job had become my 7-day-per-week job, and even though writing was part of the job, it was a formulaic TV show I could write in my sleep, and 95% of my job was not writing.
I have a finished novel to publish and completed screenplays to get produced and have done nothing with them while my job absorbed my life.
This is the year!
I love when a prompt generates so much participation.
Good luck with your writing goals in 2009.
Peace.
something I would like to share.
http://gameover709.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/with-her-i-am-free/