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we have 500 members, let’s celebrate with a collaborative poem

by the Read Write Poem Staff

We just hit the 500-member mark and want to celebrate by giving members the opportunity to write a collaborative poem in the comments section for this post. The results are always really good when we do list-style poems in which each line is contributed by a different member. We’re also going to try a little structure on for size so that this poem can sound like a collection of voices but also read like one long poem.

Here’s how we’re going to do it:

Each line will take the following form: “Today is the day I ___________________________________.”

You can put anything after the phrase “Today is the day I,” just make sure you use that opening. (What you put after the phrase doesn’t even have to be realistic. Or it can be completely realistic.)

You can also contribute more than one line, but make sure other people have a chance to contribute lines in between the lines you contribute.

And this is only the beginning of our celebration. We have some other things up our sleeves that we’ll be rolling out this week. Let us know if you have any ideas for ways we can all celebrate by emailing us at info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.

Thank you all for being here and making this such an amazing community!
– Dana, Andre, Deb and Nathan

P.S. Please only leave poem lines in the comments so we don’t mess up the flow of the poem. Thanks!

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