by Tom Adam
A lot of poetry is very serious and weighty and, because of that, sometimes it can be downright boring. Themes, metaphors and symbols are an integral part of poetry as an art, but poetry is also putting words or sounds together. Sometimes it is just putting them together!
Experimental poets have put meaning aside and have written pieces based on the intricate use of language alone, e.g. Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein. (You can listen to Stein read some of her poems at UbuWeb Sound.) Others have felt that language itself wasn’t too big of a deal (Lewis Carrol’s “Jabberwocky“). And sometimes, mixing complete nonsense with a very strict form yields interesting results (such as the “double dactyl” developed by Hecht and Pascal, which you can read about in a little more detail here, including examples of the form).
Your prompt this week is to play with words and sounds. Write a poem that may or may not make sense. Make up words. Make up sounds (although that might be really hard to read). Delve into nonsense poetry. Delve into postmodernism, if that’s your thing. Let the story or the point or the theme or metaphors slip to the side this week. Play with language.
And come back next Thursday and Get Your Poem On.
by Christine Swint
Did you write a bop? Or were you able to incorporate a friend’s lines into a poem? Maybe another prompt grabbed your attention. Whatever poem you decided to write, we’d love to read it. So get your link on, and share.
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.
by Christine Swint
Here’s your image prompt for this week. If you decide to write a poem to this image, or another one that sparks your creativity, leave a link on our Thursday Get Your Poem On post. You can also leave another link Thursday for the Read Write Prompt. Or leave a link Thursday to whatever you like.
(Note: If you include this photo in your post along with your poem, make sure you credit the artist.)
by Christine Swint
Yesterday I wrote about the bop, a loose form somewhat reminiscent of the sonnet. The prompt this week will build on the ideas of the bop, but with the intention for us to collaborate.
I’m asking you to donate two lines of poetry (from one of your own poems or two lines written just for this prompt) in the comments section of this post, and then come back tomorrow to choose someone else’s lines to use as the refrain in a bop. Next Thursday we’ll all leave a link to our poems, which will be written in response to our chosen refrains, in the Get Your Poem On post.
If you don’t want to write a bop, you can use the lines from another participant as an epigraph that you would include under the title of your poem.
As a way to acknowledge the original author of the donated lines, please link to that person’s blog in your post. Linking is also a way to build community!
Remember, the form is only a suggestion. You can always feel free to alter it in any way to suit your poem. It is your poem, after all.
by Juliet Wilson
Now is the time to share all your secret lives. I really am looking forward to seeing what you’ve imagined for yourselves!
So, leave your links to your poems in the comments below. (They don’t have to be from the alternative life prompt, or from the Monday prompt. They can be anything you’ve written and posted on your blog.) Plus, do try to check out other people’s poems if you can, that way we can really share our work and build a sense of community.
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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read write poem news- read write poem napowrimo anthology
June 20, 2010 | 1:36 pmThe Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Anthology is still in production. Selection, placement, layout and copyediting are taking longer than anticipated. Thank you for your patience. I hope to have the piece completed in July. For those who have emailed asking if they can be included, the May 7 deadline for submission of work stands. Those who met that deadline will be included. Please check the post on this site listing who I received submissions from by that date. If you submitted your work by the May 7 deadline in accordance with our guidelines and your name is not listed, send an email to info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.
- read write poem napowrimo anthology
May 5, 2010 | 3:09 pmRemember that Friday* is the deadline for submitting work to the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Anthology. Check out the guidelines for submission in the main column (to the left). On May 8, we’ll post a news item listing everyone we’ve received work from. If you submitted work and your name is not on that list, please let us know. Thanks!
*I initially said “tomorrow,” but I meant to say “Friday.”
- napowrimo congratulations, and a reminder
April 24, 2010 | 12:05 pmIt’s the final week of the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Challenge! Just 7 days left. With that, a reminder that Read Write Poem will culminate with the anthology featuring work from those who complete the challenge. A post with details for submitting to the anthology will be published May 1. Be sure you remove any information from the site that you want preserved — such as group content and personal messages. Those elements of the site will be removed May 1 as well. The main site will remain up as an archive.
- ‘underlife’ tour at january gill o’neil’s blog
April 20, 2010 | 8:11 pmJanuary Gill O’Neil’s virtual book tour has moved to her site and is underway now. Check out the lineup at Poet Mom.
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thank you and farewell As of May 1, 2010, Read Write Poem is no longer active.
In late May, an anthology featuring work from those who completed the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Challenge will be published here and on issuu.com.
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