get your poem on #85
by Dana Guthrie Martin
Happy Get Your Poem On day! And happy One Day Until We Launch the New Read Write Poem day! Please read the three posts below this one to find out about the new site and learn when you can expect some downtime as we get shop all set up over at the new joint.
Were you all enchanted/haunted/creeped-out by this week’s image prompt? What did these two figures, crouched in a cemetery, have to tell you? However the image affected you, we’d like to hear about it! 
If you participate in a Read Write Prompt, we ask that you link back here in your posts, either with a hyperlink to Read Write Poem or by using the Read Write Poem badge in your post. Sidebar links are great but it helps others find the site when you link in every post you contribute to the project. It’s not a lot to ask in acknowledgment of the work everyone is doing in providing prompts for members to use.
For the new folks, please read all the information included under out About page. If you have any questions about the project after reading through those pages, email us at info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.
 Dana Guthrie Martin is the founder of Read Write Poem. She writes things and stuff. Most of the time, her things and stuff happen to be poetry, or at least they call themselves poetry. She has a robot named Feldman. He’s writing a book of poems.
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get the read write poem badge! 
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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This prompt was so evocative for me, I got mine done early: Calling the Ghost
And a bonus (well, it was a bonus for me, anyway): Snapshot Poem 29 July 02009
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Here is mine!
http://mygorgeoussomewhere.org/2009/07/29/read-write-prompt-85-spooky/
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I wanted to do something a little deeper with this, but this is what I came up with…enjoy!
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/07/graveyard-warning.html
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OK, I’m going back to sleep now. Here’s my link: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/how-to-be-difficult
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[...] other responses to the prompt here. And be sure to check back with Read Write Poem Friday for the unveiling of wonderfulness. And a [...]
Mine is a strange Mirage.
(It’ll take me a while to read you all again this week. And I think I am still behind from the last two. I’m sorry for those I’ve missed.)
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No poem from me this week, but I have been attending poetry events and book launches, and have a review of a poetry/music collaboration here
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Did people read the top of the post and learn about how we’re launching a new site this Friday? Please read the post, and then read the three posts below this one for details.
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Mine is titled Persistence.
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and my link,
the twilight zone
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My Link:
http://constantcurrent.blogspot.com/2009/07/brothers.html
I didn’t get “spooky” out of this. It surprised me the direction it took, quite honestly. Wonderful photo!!
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On visiting a grave
Conversation with a stranger in a cemetery
Xmas day 2004
Xmas day with acres of sky bright blue
and stinking hot
something strange about the cicadas today
the high pitched shrill seems lower and softer
like a subdued sob
Xmas in the bush with mountains of food and grog
my favourite time of year…but as the day progressed a black cloud enveloped me so tightly
that not even the tinsel and bon bons could cheer me
Clinking of glasses chatting and joviality echoed like muffled murmurs in slow motion
I smiling big white flashes nodding and laughing in all the right places feigning conviviality completely preoccupied and deaf to everything willing my watch to go faster so that I could leave without rude haste.
Finally…home and sleep!
Night terror begins to the sound of the roaring wind
A distant giant wall wave approaches like an army
of dirty mirrors flanked in perfect rhythm closer and closer and as the crest curls I awake drenched in a sea of sweat
Grateful for the dawn cool I remind myself to pack
In a few hours I fly out to meet my suntanned saronged island girl sipping mai tais by the beach in
THAILAND
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http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/07/in-between-us.html
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I enjoyed doing it:
don’t forget to get my cigars
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This is mine.
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2009/07/twilight.html
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I’ve been playing a lot this week–too much rain!
I did some ‘erasures’–thanks, Dana!
pick the one you want to read–this is a link to my tag:
http://therer2doors.wordpress.com/tag/erasures/
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…and I re-worked a poem written a few months ago for the photo prompt:
http://therer2doors.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/this-class-of-81/
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Will I Remember You, Old Earth
I really enjoyed this prompt!!
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Here’s mine for the week:
Living in Minneapolis Without Faces
Great image!
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Bernard
Enjoy!
Fun prompt
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Great picture for inspiring writing. Here’s mine:
Summoning
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Wasn’t too thrilled by what came about, but here it is anyway…
http://namingconstellations.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/the-graverobbers-song/
Can’t wait for tomorrow!!
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Here’s a poem/song inspired by the photo:
http://knockingfrominside.blogspot.com/2009/07/this-is-monochrome-memory-this-is-blast.html
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This is where the image prompt took me:
Spooky
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didn’t write to the picture this week, however dana did inspire me with her prompt. as dana found this photo, i found this poem. her inspiration came from something that she didn’t plan on coming upon, much like this piece, inspired by the unexpected, and once found, cherished. hope you dig it and look forward to reading everyone’s poems.
http://beatnikprose.blogspot.com/2009/07/valuables-found-poem.html
lawrence
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Epilogue to a short man
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Prompt 85 using Doug Shaver’s photo …I have come up with Where The Dead Whisper
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love this site…well done…i just posted on my blog about creating art with your words
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I plan to return to this one – it feels fairly undone, but the prompt was too juicy not to post. I printed the picture out a week ago and have been taking it from room to room with me, asking it to speak. I got down to the following dialog:
Grounds Crew Morning
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I wish I had more time to work on this.
http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2009/07/great-prompt-great-picture-not-so-great.html
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Once again, I didn’t manage to write anything for the prompt, though I did write this week’s Torah poem; if you’re interested you can find it here:
Promise
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2009/07/this-weeks-portion-promise.html
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Nocturne – a video poem
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