read write prompt #66: re-imagine your life
by Juliet Wilson
Whether or not we’re happy with our current lives, I’m sure most of us have at some point wondered what it would be like to live a completely different life. Perhaps you feel you were someone else entirely in a previous life, or maybe you wonder what would have happened if you had made another decision at a key point? This week, why not use one of these musings as a basis for a poem?
Me? Well, the rather severe look in my latest passport photo, combined with the ease with which I learnt Italian, made me wonder about “My Life as a Mafia Widow.” You can read that poem, along with everyone else’s, when we Get Our Poems On next week.
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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.’ “
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- 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.
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What an interesting prompt. Having highlander Ferguson blood coursing my veins and loving the fog on a bog I’ve always wondered if in a past life I wore a kilt and swung a long sword.
Sounds like we might hear something from this fellow next week ;^)
Donald – I believe a kilt and a swung sword go hand in hand…
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I love the last paragraph of this prompt! It made me laugh to think of the Crafty Green Poet as a mafia widow.
Well since I’m obsessed right now with attaining the Best Job in the World as caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef, this is the perfect prompt for me!
Maybe I’ll turn my script into pentameter stanzas!
anybody else from here applying by the way?
artpredator – if I was in the right part of the world i would probably be tempted by that job too…
Christine, I didn’t want to be predictable!
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