napowrimo #24: listen up!
by Juliet Wilson
The world seems to be getting noisier all the time, and often writers find themselves needing to block it out so they can concentrate. Well this week, don’t do that. Instead, listen to all the noise and let it inspire your poetry!
For example, you could write a mood piece based on the sounds around you at the moment or write a narrative driven by sound. Or you might prefer to write about silence. Or something else entirely.
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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 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.
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- 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 mine for today:
movie script ending
Inspired by a song I was listening to at the time.
Twitter-time
Silence says it all
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/04/arid-summer-words-dry-after-argument.html
For almost the first time I’m not using the prompt, I have posted two tonight so I am all caught up for the day I missed
Sloe Gin
Here is my NaPoMo poem #24: My Words
Day 24 — just one more week!
http://thisyearsblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/nablopomo-2009-day-24-a-found-poem/
Here’s my # 23
Pushing Beyond the Albatross:
http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2009/04/pushing-beyond-albatross-napowrimo-23.html
here’s mine for tonight, with thanks.
http://knittingthewind-westering.blogspot.com/2009/04/read-write-poem-is-psychic.html
This is my NaPoMo poem #24-A: Dissonance
And here is mine:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/04/moon-eats-sugar-puffs.html
Here’s mine:
Sounds of silence
Here’s mine:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2009/04/reformuation-of-silence.html and I look forward to readign everyone else’s
THE DIVINE DELIVERER
echo
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2009/04/echo.html
I got mine posted before noon! :0)
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/break-through.html
24th NaPoWriMo poem
on my
facebook notes
and here:
http://dash30dash.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sincerely-lc-napowrimo-24-1
write on.
in uses today’s prompt shock!
Not very noisy ~ but it at least mentions guitars!
Casting
Feels about 1/2 half done: Middle Ear
a silence of sorts…
{my own}
http://itsacanadiangeek.blogspot.com/2009/04/april-09-post-poem-11.html
Day 24.
http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-24-im-listening-to-spring-songare.html
Here’s mine.
Petrified Noise – a triolet
http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/04/petrified-noise
http://lori102870.blogspot.com/2009/04/lovers-leftoversnapowrimo-24by-me.html
instead of dancing on the head of the pin
Angels at the Point
The LISTEN poem took a shape & form of its own…
Here’s a version that is embedded in tulip trees image
http://joybringer.gaia.com/blog/2009/4/listen_and_napowrimo_23
here’s mine
listen
Here is #24…..UNPLUGGED
my response to #24 listen up
http://eneri-hot.blogspot.com/2009/04/ambient-sounds.html
PASTURE PARTNERS – OPPOSITES ATTRACT
I’m back: I got my wisdom teeth out last week. (: Hopefully I can write double the poetry this week to make up for what I missed.
Here’s my first poem for today.
Silence, Brushed Over With Cheap Gold Paint
http://morningsongspoems.blogspot.com/2009/04/silence-brushed-over-with-cheap-gold.html
a long week of testing leads to this one for #24:
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/04/quiet-please-children-testing.html
TAKEN FOR A RIDE – DRIVING LESSONS
Symphony of Sound
The cicada call for mates makes me stir
in bed late at night, shuffle, shuffle the sheets
where legs meet without lubricant-
no glide only pop-stick.
Away from here–dogs howl trying to be wolves
and cats cry like babies I should have by now.
But the phone doesn’t drip–it’s empty
I took the last sip when I said, “Good-bye.”
Good-bye, a hush of breath mumbled
under your words, folded, folded, pulled
plucked, gone, swished over and spit out.
This one was inspired by a photograph but it is about sound nevertheless
Inchmahome
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Here is my poem inspired by the severe weather this week:
Storm
Instead of listening I went shopping in a more unfortunate area than the place I live in and this was my experience.
I was in Chicago with no free time, so this is a tad late. Love the prompt, though.
http://cassandralee.tumblr.com/post/100492770
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