napowrimo #25: how-to
by Jill Crammond Wickham
Write a “how-to” poem.
Need some inspiration? Free-write a list of all the things you wish you knew how to do. Pick one and write a poem about it. Brainstorm a list of things that are impossible to do. Choose one and write a poem about how to do it. Open a cook book. Choose a recipe. Using the recipe format, insert your own instructions for something completely different. Turn a meatloaf recipe into “how to get a date.”
PS: Remember your list of 50 words? Try throwing some of them in the mix, just for fun!
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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.
- 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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I wrote something based on a phrase within your prompt.
http://knittingthewind-westering.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-wish-i-could-wear-combat-boots-and.html
Running late on my #24, even for the West Coast:
Dog 2.0
http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-24.html
Liner Notes.
http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-25-this-is-not-how-to-it-is-not.html
This is just plain daft.
How to detox your Car
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/04/hunger-pangs.html
Not exactly a how to poem, but it was sparked by the prompt
A Rope of Sand
This is probably more how not too, but here goes:
http://sewina.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-25-saturday-scribes.html
I’ll be back later to read everybody elses work!
Thanks for the prompt!!!
Here is mine:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/04/watch-movie-from-sidewalks.html
know-how
On prompt
“a href=”http://thisbrokensky.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/napowrimo-2009-24-25/”>How To Enjoy Sunday Morning Coffee
Oops, that link went a bit wrong.
Let’s try again:
<a href=”http://thisbrokensky.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/napowrimo-2009-24-25/”<How To Enjoy Sunday Morning Coffee
I give up trying to link to the post today! Just visit my blog
Claire, your name isn’t going to your blog. I’ve copied and pasted your link. Hopefully this will work.
Claire HM #24 #25
a recipe for NaPoWriMo 25
on my face book notes
or right here
http://dash30dash.ning.com/profiles/blogs/baked-alaska-love-napowrimo-25
write on!
My NaPoMo poem #25: Being Now
[...] Look at me, making some silly extended metaphor about poetry as if I think I know what I’m talking about. This was written in the throes of caffeine withdrawal and the author is not responsible for the content.
Find more Day 25 poems here. [...]
Well, here is something, not sure what. How to Survive Cubicle Life
[...] Jill’s prompt today at Read Write Poem is about “how to.” [...]
To Be A Tree In Someone’s Backyard You Must -
http://morningsongspoems.blogspot.com/2009/04/to-be-tree-in-someones-backyard-you.html
“how to fix a broken plate” for #25–
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-fix-broken-plate.html
[...] Read Write Poem’s prompt [...]
I have never made a souffle and now I know why:
Read the Directions First
Master the Art of Writer’s Block With Strunk and White -
http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/04/master-the-art…runk-and-white
here is #25…something i wish i could do…..Croon
which will be today’s effort
I’m actually on prompt today, which feels pretty amazing.
How to Isolate Yourself at Parties and Other Social Events
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/owners-manual.html
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2009/04/ageless.html
I have written so many papers at the end of this semester.
Essay, Dear Poem
Recipe for a Poem
Only 5 days left!
With 40 minutes to spare I breeze in to leave my link
). Didn’t follow the prompt, 
, but I like this one.
http://lori102870.blogspot.com/2009/04/love-in-disguisenapowrimo-25by-me.html
BOUNDARIES AT THE BACK DOOR
my response to #25, how-to.
I hope you’ll enjoy this.
http://eneri-hot.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-die-happily.html
A day late. Was in Chicago with no free time.
http://cassandralee.tumblr.com/post/100494975
I knew how-to some years ago, astride a tractor:
http://antarcticamag.wordpress.com/
[...] NaPoWriMo Read Write Poem Prompt #25 [...]
[...] This is in response to the “how to” prompt at Read Write Poem. [...]
Here is mine:
http://deowriter.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/napowrimo-how-to-poem/