napowrimo #22: wednesday is list day
by Jill Crammond Wickham
Grab five of your favorite poetry books. Open to a random page in each, copy a phrase or a word that catches your eye, use them in a poem.
For example (and feel free to borrow any of these), here are five random phrases from Jill’s poetry library:
“So what will you do tomorrow now that he has died today?” from How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett.
” … a chipped table between us, my sleeves dragging it wet rings” from Filibuster to Delay a Kiss by Courtney Queeney.
“I visit the grocery store” from Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye.
“Where will love go … ” from Strike Sparks by Sharon Olds.
“I’m in the kitchen slicing bread for a sandwich” from Dark Alphabet by Jennifer Maier.
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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 Thursday’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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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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Anaïs: NaPoWriMo #22
a perfect assignment for a lazy poet. However, I used prose for the second stanza -and the last three lines are one fragment from one sentence…
here’s mine, for what its worth.
http://knittingthewind-westering.blogspot.com/2009/04/they-were-lovers-in-lifes-beginning.html
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Here’s mine, inspired by the earlier prompt about missing someone, though it’s not me who does the missing (this time).
http://thisyearsblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/napowrimo-2009-day-22/
I enjoyed doing this:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/04/gyrating-on-its-own-steam-of-oath.html
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/04/challenging-all-oaths-river-has-enough.html
Love this prompt!
This is the remix! (Langston Hughes style)
http://bsquared86.blogspot.com/2009/04/poetically-correct-napowrimo-remix.html
This was fun. Lifeline
I enjoyed doing this even though it was a bit harder than I thought it would be.
There was a suicide in the paper today. It always pisses me off.
So You’ve Killed Yourself
Broken link on last post
So You’ve Killed Yourself
Earth
[for Earth Day: I selected five poets and picked lines about "earth"]
UPON THE ROCK
[...] 22 by Claire HM I have played around with the prompt provided by those lovely guys over at Read Write Poem today. It may be a little convoluted, but I’m happy to share the process of my [...]
poem # 22
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2009/04/sunset_22.html
In honor of Earth Day – Emily Dickinson on Nature: Did You Leave Nature Well?
Using the idea of two prompts,
making my own challenge from them
to creat NaPoWriMo # 22
On my facebook Notes
http://dash30dash.ning.com/profiles/blogs/binspired-by-random-words-of
Congrats to W.S. Merwin on his 2nd Pulitzer!
Write On.
I’m a bit late today.
#22 collage
this is a list of sorts but not the list prompted today.
more of a list of tangible memory…still very vivid and clear…
http://itsacanadiangeek.blogspot.com/2009/04/april-09-post-poem-9.html
On prompt:
B Movie Melodrama Script
And off:
Souvenir
Longer than usual for me.
http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-22-wednesday-earth-day-list-day.html
This poem came together quickly, but it took a long time to get the links to all the sources the way I wanted them.
http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/04/a-new-constellation/
Also, I’m thinking of participating in an open mic poetry reading. Any suggestions on which of my poems might be good to revise/include? Would love some feedback.
Posting a bit belatedly, twinned poems for NaPoWriMo #21-22:
little voices
Here is my NaPoMo poem #22, an Earth Day homage to Gaia: For Granted
here is #22….this was a blast
I used lines from 6 poets i like
ginsberg..snyder..kerouac.. cohen..robeert creeley and a lady from Calgary amy chandler
#22
I was watching a news story about a car accident and I picked five random sentences out of the book I’m reading…sort of the prompt and sort of not:
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/04/accident.html
14 TRASHBAGS – NOT ENOUGH
[...] Prompt for today: Read Write Poem is doing lists. [...]
[...] Prompt for today: Read Write Poem is doing lists. [...]
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Wow, this was an interesting exercise:
The Landscape of Her Body
Breezing in with a little time to spare. Didn’t follow the prompt though
(.
http://lori102870.blogspot.com/2009/04/best-me-i-can-benapowrimo-22by-me.html
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/74605.html
It’s still 4/22 on the west coast, so I’m just getting this in under the wire:
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-poem-22-and-post-101.html
Done, and its not even dinner time yet in New Zealand
Song of the Moth
late. but last post!
http://mariascala.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-22-borrow-some-lines-or-i.html
Very unusual prompt. Never done anything like this before…
A bit late, but I was in Chicago with no free time.
Didn’t follow the prompt.
http://cassandralee.tumblr.com/post/100484622
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