Comments on: read write prompt #74: hyperlink your poetry

By: Hai(perlinked)Ku | Coyote Mercury

Hai(perlinked)Ku | Coyote Mercury — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:50:04 +0000

[...] week’s Read Write Poem prompt (#74: Hyperlink Your Poetry) was to hyperlink a poem and try to add a bit of depth. I wanted to try to hyperlink every word so [...]

By: Asphalt « Raven’s Wing Poetry

Asphalt « Raven’s Wing Poetry — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:09:06 +0000

[...] This was written for two Read Write Poem Prompts this week – Read Write Word # 16 and Read Write Prompt # 74: Hyperlink Your Poetry. I used some of the words in the first prompt and added hyperlinks to some pictures, Wikipedia [...]

By: Phil Thrift

Phil Thrift — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:46:31 +0000

I invented a word (or term) that's in Urban Dictionary: mood link (like mood ring), whose color "takes on" a feature or characteristic of its link target. I've used this in some of my poems. (The UD editors allowed it in after about two months!)

By: Kristen S

Kristen S — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:23:00 +0000

This is a conversation I had in college; I referenced something very obscure, and some folks in the workshop felt that not knowing the definition lessened the poem, but my argument was that if you did a google search, the correct context was the first search results; if you wanted to know what it meant, it would be very easy to find. Plus, it was what I wanted to use; I didn’t feel like I should change it when it was so easy to figure out what it is. Alas, traditionists felt like it was lazy to do such a thing.

By: maria

maria — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:19:44 +0000

wow…i made one poem during NaPoWriMo, linking it to some lovely pictures…i hope it’ll be fine if i’ll post it this thursday…but i’ll make new one as well.

thanks for the prompt…

By: Derrick

Derrick — Sun, 10 May 2009 09:41:44 +0000

Hello,

This is the first time I’ve used one of your word prompts to have a go with – and I don’t claim to be a poet!

Not sure what the form should be but just letting you know. Thanks!

By: laughing dove

laughing dove — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:35:53 +0000

If your software doesn't let you make links easily, this website does. Easy Hyperlinks

By: Crafty green poet

Crafty green poet — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:21:56 +0000

Yes I know this is the wrong place to link to my poem, but I’ll be out of town next week so here it is:

http://foundcraftygreenart.blogspot.com/2009/04/scots-in-malawi.html

I look forward to reading everyone’s contributions

By: Linda Jacobs

Linda Jacobs — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:58:09 +0000

Thanks, Juliet, I’m going to try that! i figured there was an easier way!

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:03:32 +0000

I just checked and found I have the hyperlink tool after all

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:00:04 +0000

Actually, since I am using Safari on a Mac, which is not fully supported by Blogger, the hyperlink tool is not available. At least, it wasn’t last time I checked, maybe they have fixed it but in the meantime I got used to having to type in all the html myself, it is quite quick once you get past the initial learning phase.

By: Crafty green poet

Crafty green poet — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:53:56 +0000

Sarah – I agree with you, like Claire, I find that part of the challenge. Sometimes it seems to me as though its a distraction to include hyperlinks in poetry, sometimes it seems like an underused resource for adding depth and texture….

Linda – Blogger lets you add hyperlinks quite easily, you just highlight the word or phrase you want to add a link to, then in the toolbar there’s a nice little hyperlink tool which you select, which will bring up a little box in which you paste the address of the site you want to link to. (Feel free to contact me if that doesn’t make sense!)

By: Linda Jacobs

Linda Jacobs — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:45:09 +0000

I do appreciate hyperlinks and see them quite often but it seems like a lot of work. Or maybe I just don’t know how to do them right. What is the process? Sorry, I’m still a novice computer user! I figured out how to leave a link to my poems but it took a while to learn that < href, etc. stuff. Is there an easier way?

By: Claire HM

Claire HM — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:41:14 +0000

Great prompt Juliet, I look forward to having a play around with it. I see Sarah’s point as part of the challenge of the ‘hyperlink poetry’ form

By: sarah

sarah — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:38:15 +0000

Hmm, I’m not sure, my experience of reading poems is always lessened if they include hyperlinks. I wonder if it takes the depth out of the poem, makes it go sideways and outwards instead – ? I appreciate though that it is another shapeshifting poetry undergoes at the leading edge, and I’m usually not up with the latest trends.

By: Mallery

Mallery — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:40:29 +0000

Hello fellow poets,

I participated in Napowrimo and was hoping we could share a bit about our experiences of the month. I posted a bit about my experience here if you’d like to join in.

-Mallery

P.S. Great prompt, I am going to have fun with this one!