get your poem on #71
by Christine Swint
Did you find a doozy of a first line? Or maybe the Read Write Image or Read Write Word prompts spoke to you. Whatever poem you wrote this week, share it by linking up in the comments section below.
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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- and it keeps on coming: our (virtual) tour of molly gaudry’s ‘anatomy for the artist’
March 9, 2010 | 1:00 pmLawrence Gladeview has posted his thoughts about Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist.” Find the post at Righteous Rightings.
In case you missed it, the first stop was Donna Vorreyer’s, at her blog. Next was Catherine Fitchett at Poetry Chook.
You can find information about the chapbook and tour here, including a link to where to find it and read it online.
- obama’s first hundred days in poetry
March 6, 2010 | 8:36 amArielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker challenged 100 poets to note the political climate of each of President Obama’s first days in office. The blogged poems have been anthologized in a work called Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days, which will be released in April (ahem, National Poetry Month, although you can pre-order a copy at their blog site).
Read about it here. A hat tip to Rethabile Masilo who posted a link to Rachel Zucker’s poem at his blog, Poéfrika.
- announcing the next stop in our (virtual) tour of molly gaudry’s ‘anatomy for the artist’
March 4, 2010 | 11:14 amCatherine Fitchett is one of our hosts on the (virtual) book tour of Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist.” Find out what she has to say at Poetry Chook.
In case you missed it, the first stop was Donna Vorreyer’s, at her blog.
You can find information about the chapbook and tour here, including a link to where to find it and read it online.
If you would like to get on the tour host schedule, join the Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour group and leave us a note on the wire or forum page. (We’re looking for a few more people in general and for April, specifically. It’s not to late to get on the tour and get a copy of January G. O’Neil’s Underlife, our tour for April.)
- there is room for six more member prompts for april’s napowrimo!
March 3, 2010 | 5:59 pmYou might know we’re planning another prompt-every-day for those who love (or who have a love-hate relationship with) daily poem-writing in April (which is National Poetry Month in the United States — although there is an international following of writing a poem every day in April, too, so it is not just about the States).
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 all we need, but don’t delay because we want to be ready come April Fools’ Day.
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Here’s my poem, inspired by jone’s donated first line “desert sky circles”.
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/03/fleeting.html
Here’s mine: Air space
I’m going away for a long weekend but I’ll read other people’s poems when I get back.
Here is what I wrote:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/03/over-ridges-and-hard-planes.html
Here’s mine for this week:
http://catapulttomars.blogspot.com/2009/03/mystic-garden.html
Many diapers and boo-boos
Dreams, Like Dew in the Early Morning
here is my poem inspired by
that word you lost, i found it
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-word.html
this one was inspired by
if i could wake the sun up now
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2009/03/ugly-truth.html
I haven’t thought I will be able to write for this prompt, but : Anaïs: Farewell (2) for Readwritepoem #71
I just had to write it after re-reading Sylvia Plath…
I borrowed John’s first line, “when Godzilla flattens your car on Monday morning.” You can read the result here:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2009/03/24/when-godzilla-flattens-your-car-on-monday-morning/
Here’s my contribution, inspired by the first line from James.
The Pound my Concrete Face.
http://thinkingcities.blogspot.com/2009/03/they-pound-my-concrete-face.html
Thanks to Dave and Gautami!
http://deowriter.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/read-write-poem/
Here’s mine. Thanks to Derek for the first line!
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/03/lapis-lazuli.html
my contribution for read write image #12:
http://benjaminchew110478.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/merely/
I have one based on throwshiswords’ first line, “Through rough patchwork fields”
Ploughing
And another one for the image. Thunderbird Poem
a tiny offering using christine’s first line prompt
And I used Carolee’s first line!
Star Crossed
Thanks for this cool idea! I’m going to use it in my classroom.
Here’s what I wrote using Gautami Tripathy’s first line.
I used Derek’s first line:
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/03/waitng-in-line-behind-her-while-she.html
and the image prompt got me, too:
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/03/gravity.html
I was inspired by Aila and Link John’s great first lines.
My first Godzilla poem.
I used Rob’s.
http://eatsbugs.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/windmills-32109/
This is what I’ve been writing:
http://sewina.blogspot.com/2009/03/top-prompt.html
I used a line from one of my students to begin this poem: Art Studio
I haven’t written from this first line yet, but I wanted to share for people still fishing:
“Can you start early? I have to leave for the funeral soon.”
Never one to stick to directions, I took 5 people’s first lines, threw them in a blender and made a poetry milkshake.
http://hollyannam.blogspot.com/2009/03/alarming.html
I borrowed the line: “through rough patchwork fields.” A friend and I came up with this
http://bostonsdandd.multiply.com/journal/item/266
another creative challenge!!!… i used donald’s “..i know that life has loved me..” line times up/a>
Here is mine..”every old lady lives in a shoe” first line by carolee
…a poem inspired by a different photo from Pensiero, the individual who created the photo seen in read write image #12… Skyward
This very tiny poem (maybe it isn’t even one) was prompted by a line read on an art book, regarding the beauty of symmetry.
There I share it with you : Symmetry
Something old. Feel free to offer feedback. Not quite where I’d like it to be.
Center of Trees
It bugs me to select a link for a participant and I can’t easily link back. It’s the point to make it easier to support all participants’? Please link back.
Susan, could you clarify what you mean?
Hi Marty,
I deleted your comment because we leave links here to our poems written on our own blogs. Not the poems themselves.
Sorry to be so rules-y, but, well. We have a format we try to follow.
Hey Lori,
When you’re new the spam reader takes a while to figure it out. We will fish you out. Be a little patient.
Deb,
I’m referring to when I visited participants’ blogs who have left their link for a prompt. It is common practice for most memes that you link directly to your contribution and you leave a direct link to original prompt.
I can see I left a few words out. It should have read: Isn’t one of the point of linking so we can easily access links to all participants? A participant should be able to easily access links to responses and that is facilitated by having a link in your post back to the list of links left by members.
Easier it is too access the links, the more visits you’re likely to make and therefore supporting more bloggers. That’s community.
Late, late, late.
Here’s mine, “Corridor“, using One More Believer’s line.
how can i contribute my poems?