get your poem on #97
by Nathan Moore
Is it just as fun taking words apart as it is putting them together? What happened when you let chance and randomness have their way with your words? Leave a link to your cut ups here — I can’t wait to see what you made!
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 Nathan Moore is community director and a columnist for Read Write Poem. In his spare time, he plays with his children and with fire. Never at the same time. He blogs at Exhaust Fumes and French Fries.
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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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My poem this week is titled:
“Tetragrammaton”
I struggled with the concept, with the process, and with ginormous a/an/the/in/to clusters, but in the end…
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First? Here is my attempt…
The King’s Lament
It was an interesting exercise, don’t know that I’d repeat it often, but still…
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New Scientist vs Vogue = a mess. Or, This…
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Snipped, patched, for art’s sake.
the failed violinist
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My piece is up. It’s not on my personal site, but instead over at Mutating the Signature:
http://mutatingthesignature.org/2009/10/21/telegram/
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Here’s mine. I did a cut-up plus a mash-up, and even after all of the smoothing it’s still pretty abstract:
Distance
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I massacred two great poems .I know I did a bad thing but it was Nathan’s idea!
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
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Donald Harbour replied:
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:11 am
Enow..to get your sonnet go here: “Thou Art a Strumpet Faire”
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rallentanda replied:
October 23rd, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I prefer your other sonnet
‘Thou art a crude misogynist’
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Donald Harbour replied:
October 24th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Nay, nay the playful banter of a grinning Puck.
rallentanda replied:
October 25th, 2009 at 5:23 am
In Elizabethan English
strumpet means a whore slut
Call me old fasioned Puck but I’m not grinning
rallentanda replied:
October 25th, 2009 at 5:45 am
oops typo- fashioned. If you want to rectify this Puck,try an acceptable public apology.If not, I will consider what further action I may choose to take.
That was fun!
Chance Language Encounters
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“safer” comes from my husband’s essay
http://theresebroderick.wordpress.com/
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This weeks was a little…interesting…They came riding yaks.
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You’ll find mine here.
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I simply re-wrote a terza rima. Not as easy as I had thought:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/10/terza-rima-psychedelic-pajamas.html
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reflecting pool, illuminate
Cut and jumbled, a poem in two voices.
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Now I have all these extra “a” “an” “of” sniplets lying around. What does that mean? I ended up somewhere near where I began. Wizard Wife
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angie werren replied:
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:40 am
me, too. “sniplets lying around”
I was thinking about making soup…
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mark Stratton replied:
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:38 pm
You could bake a snippet pie…
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I used text about the Battle of Trafalgar (anniversary yesterday). It presents a rather different course of events!
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2009/10/naval-report.html
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this was fun — thumbs up for scissors-and-glue-sticks!
http://therer2doors.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/a-ramidus-and-the-descent-of-man/
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Wwweeelllll, folks. I cut my finger, twice, with those damn scissors. So, I wrote about something ubiquitous in our lives that everyone takes for granted, except those that love to touch it. Ohh, I like to touch it. Can you guess what it is, not a clue, good. Then try this on:
There it is, everywhere
Its raining here in Arkansas, an ‘it’ likes the rain!
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Not really a cut up. More like a flip through…
http://jerrydwhite.blogspot.com/2009/10/from-second-shelf.html
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I was very surprised at how insightful this poem turned out. I didn’t expect it to turn out nearly so well.
Dear Poet, a poem composed of cut up rejection letters.
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This one grew me…. in more ways than as a poet.
http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/jjspoetry/2009/10/readwritepoem-prompt-97-coin-paradox.html
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I was very surprised at how insightful this poem turned out. I didn’t expect it to turn out nearly so well.
Dear Poet, a poem composed of cut up rejection letters.
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Here’s what happened. It’s part of the new venture Dana and I have started called Mutating the Signature: http://mutatingthesignature.org/2009/10/22/denouement-how-to-untie-a-knot/
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Mine is titled “ReX”. http://zouxzoux.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/rwp-97-rex/
Off to work for me….will be reading all y’all tonight!
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In my own somewhat dyslexic way, I twisted the idea of putting the words into a jar, which was only a part of what we were supposed to do, into ordering the words from heavy to light. The poem I wrote is environmentally based (Rallentanda =D) and sad. I enjoyed putting it together. It was based on ideas from a newspaper article. I got it partly right.
Living In The Eastern Woodlands. My poem is Coal Fire and Melted Ice
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Zouxzoux replied:
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:40 pm
I think your technique with this poem is masterful. I am so impressed with the result!
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I’m not sure what I enjoyed more–cutting up a memo from work or writing this poem! :0)
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/10/poet-realizes-she-has-never-had.html
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Here is my offering this week. I warn you it turned out a bit creepy….
http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com
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http://radio-nowhere.org/nb/?p=273
I didn’t follow the prompt. I rewrote an older poem. Color me rebellious!
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Strange poem from a cut-up of an unsuccessful short story I wrote years ago.
“Sea Sick”
http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/readwritepoem-97-cut-and-paste/
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Back after slightly over a month of not posting here! Here’s my contribution for the week:
A Pace Beyond
http://thinkingcities.blogspot.com/2009/10/pace-beyond.html
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Here’s my contribution: their journey withered, from a bag of Basho’s words.
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After some wrestling with the assignment, I fished randomly from three groups of phrases about Andrew Wyeth and/or his painting of Christina Olson. The first was a set of disparaging remarks by critics, the second, a set of Wyeth’s own comments, and the third a free association scribble of my own impressions of the painting. Finding that I only got babble when I selected single words, I allowed myself chunks of a few words and then did a bit of pruning and organizing afterward, though leaving most of the structure intact.
Christina’s World
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No Cut-Ups
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There’s still a cup of words waiting by the keyboard. This was one I’d ‘cut up’ some time back – Thanks!
Read Write Poem #97
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Pretty silly, but here it is: Submissions for The Gods
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I wrote two sad excuses for poems.
http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2009/10/cutting-up-rwp-prompt-97.html
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RWP#97 using cut-up technique. I cut up and old Ken Kesey book…Sailor Song…page 371…randomness..some words came out of my hat.
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com
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lizenslin replied:
October 24th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Hey Wayne-
(For some reason, my comment didnt’ work on blogspot, so I’m leaving it here):
I suspected this technique to be dangerous but never thought about cutting a finger. I like the flow and images in your poem. My favorite line: “publishing dirt on green stuff.”
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I had so much fun doing this – I am still working on it unfortunately – hence the delay.
I had a poem from HW Longfellow which I cut up (I felt like a little kid) and drew one word after another (didnt even change the order for the final product) have taken a pic of the created poem… will have to post it!
But, just wanted to let you know it was such an awesome exercise! Thank you….
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I note you have chosen to remove the publication of my email address(which is supposed to be private) and the sonnet dedication to the nagging English teacher from Sydney in your post and replaced it with something more acceptable.
However this does not constitute the public apology that I requested. The slander was read
by those who visited the site including those
who commented.
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rallentanda replied:
October 25th, 2009 at 10:18 am
The above is addressed to Donald Harbour
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Read Write Poem replied:
October 25th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Donald and Rallentanda, a reminder that Read Write Poem maintains a respectful environment between its members and has established a code of conduct to this effect. If you want to have this discussion publicly on Read Write Poem, please follow the code. If you have any questions, feel free to email the directors.
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This is my maiden voyage on Prompt 97. Here’s a link to my poem: “Staying.” http://TwitPWR.com/vKO/
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Therese L. Broderick replied:
October 28th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Allan, I left an appreciation of your poem on your Facebook page because I couldn’t access your blog comments (I have a WordPress account, but not a Google account.)
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