napowrimo #18: word salad
by Jill Crammond Wickham
Remember your 50 words? Haul them out, we’re going to mix up a little word salad! The recipe is easy: Cut up your list (you should have 50 bite-sized pieces), place the pieces in a bowl, pull out single words or handfuls to taste, arrange on the page.
Variations: Garnishes (modifiers) such as “as,” “and,” “the,” “I,” etc. … may be added; arrange in couplets; use all of your ingredients to write a poem using your own recipe.
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A note from “admin”: This month, since we’re all trying to write every day, we’re leaving the comments open with each prompt so you can post links to your poems as you write them. So, go ahead and write your poem, post your poem (with a link to Read Write Poem and a Read Write Poem tag, if you would) and come back to this very spot and share your link with us.
Of course, if you’re a creature of habit, you can always post your links at next week’s “Get Your Poem On” post. Who are we to mess around with what works for you?
And don’t forget to go read the poems of others in this wonderful writing community. We’re all in this NaPoWriMo “mess” (ha ha!) together; let’s support each other in the insanity that is writing (every day)!
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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.
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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!
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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 don’t have 50 words because I’m a new kid. Here’s a poem on poems.
Here’s my Day 17….I got the idea, loosely, from Day 16 prompt.
Dinosaurs and Oreos:
http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-17.html
I started late here, so I don’t have 50 words. I gathered some others though and wrote something as I’m trying to keep up.
http://knittingthewind-westering.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-watch-her-through-sparks-of-sunlight.html
After racking the ole brain, I’m up and ready for viewing
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http://lori102870.blogspot.com/2009/04/had-it-been-snake-it-wouldve-bitten.html
Here is what I wrote:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/04/exquisite-tentacle.html
This one’s actually in the theme of NaPoWriMo #16.
Midnight Roses
http://thinkingcities.blogspot.com/2009/04/midnight-roses.html
[...] letting go for napowrimo 18 [...]
here’s mine
letting go
I’ve done a word prompt today, only it’s Carolee’s lexical one from day 16.
#16 Fugitive
[...] t-rex and a thesaurus Day 18 of NaPoWriMo with Read Write Poem. Somehow or other I missed Carolee’s lexical prompt. I had fun with this, although [...]
schizophasia
(with limited “self-originality”)
i moved to the fastest and biggest city in India a year back- Mumbai
here’s a mix of words that offers you a desi (local) Mumbai salad! it aint a poem though.
bon appetite!
http://www.etopiakilla.blogspot.com
i moved to the fastest and biggest city of India- Mumbai.
here’s my mix of words to offer you a desi (local) salad on Mumbai. It isnt a poem though.
Bon appetite.
Day 18 offering
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2009/04/soul.html
Ocean Children
My friends rock! I got a great list of words–
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/04/dressing-on-side.html
Great prompt for a lazy Saturday morning.
http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-18-word-salad.html
(The above is yesterday’s post.) I just wanted to say I need some new words–my list only contains VERBS!! LOL! Nice strong verbs. OK, I’ll get BB to make me a new list. Thanks, sounds like fun.
(above is still yesterday’s post) I have bags and bags of words my Mum cut up for me to use with kids in poets in the schools, maybe I’ll dredge out some of those.
(still yesterday’s post above) OR–maybe I will cut up a poet laureate poem into individual words and rearrange them–those should be good words, right? (are we allowed to do that?)
Here’s the fourteenth…
Lost Girl
This is even sillier than yesterday’s. But you asked for word salad, so here it is:
http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/04/morning-headlines
#18… had to twist the prompt a bit because I had already played with the original 50 words in the way suggested. Came up with a very very challenging twist.
It’s on my facebook Notes
and here
http://dash30dash.ning.com/profiles/blogs/returning-the-artifact
write on.
What fun! But sorry, I couldn’t manage the couplets.
A Cautionary Tale
For everyone who has ever raised a child
Manifest Desitiny
This is my NaPoMo poem #18, a tale of lost love and found hope: Stir of Love
here’s my napowrimo #13 (i’m a few days behind. not worried about catching up, but still keeping track of where i am).
mine’s about elephants and poets making noise, which is to say i didn’t use this fabulous prompt. but i will.
My poems this week just weren’t worth posting. One of my best friends has moved across the country, so my emotions have just been all over the place.
Anyways. Here’s another poem, not written off the prompt because I don’t have a list.
http://cannedoriginality.blogspot.com/2009/04/war.html
look at me moving with lightning speed!
napowrimo #14.
something on mindfulness. life and death. no biggie.
Here’s mine…
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/spring-wind_18.html
Here is mine #18
Sleeping On The Edge
I was cleaning the other day and threw my 50 words away!
I’m still hanging in there. This is my language poem for Sunday Scribblings.
[...] NaPoWriMo Read Write Poem Prompt #18 [...]
I didn’t follow the prompt today since I don’t have 50 words.
Silent Scream
mirror … http://djkreutzer.com/moments/archives/436
My NaPoMo poem #18-A, a bit of mad humor: Offbeat
My NaPoMo poem #18-B: Bohemian Tie-Dye
Colorful Word Salad It is! EnJoy!
http://joybringer.gaia.com/blog/2009/4/word_salad_-_napowrimo_18
I’ve been wrestling with this all day – time to give up and move on
Fifty Kettle Weather
[...] For Read Write Poem’s [...]
I keep getting later and later in posting these. Here is my word salad taken from 50 words from page 1 of Blindness by Jose Saramago:
Blind Journey
ANGRY AMERICAN SANDWICH
I don’t have fifty words, either – so I used the prompts to write He Rides the Rodeo, which I posted at http://sandarastravejournal.blogspot.com along with my poem from the day before. This is starting to be fun.
The first half of the poem originally came from 50 words, but I ran out of words and continued on on my own and then did some fairly extensive revision. However, most of the original 50 words (and some of their synonyms) are still in the poem. My name is the link to the poem.
The poem is called “A Trick of Light” and is the Hades Persephone story, in part.
Yeah, no couplets for me, either!
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/72718.html
I know this is really late, but I’ve been busy… I have nine poems to write today to catch up!
Didn’t follow the prompt.
http://cassandralee.tumblr.com/post/98690735
chemistry sucks and no, i didn’t follow the prompt.