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- 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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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?