get your poem on #100
by the Read Write Poem Staff
What did you do with your dreams this week? Was it difficult to translate your dreams into poetry? Were you surprised by what you came up with? Shocked? Frightened? Delighted?
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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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My poem this week is titled:
“JUNGLE FANTASY“
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Paul, how do you beat me every time??
Mysterious Shore, Who Gave You Such Complexity?
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Alas, I didn’t manage to write to the prompt this week, but here’s a link to my weekly Torah poem nonetheless:
Departure
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2009/11/this-weeks-portion-departure.html
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I hardly ever remember my dreams so I’ve done a dream related piece instead:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/questions
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http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
Read Write Poem #100
This wasn’t easy.Dream sequencing is very confusing!
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I had a wierd dream…
my reptilian dream
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I didn’t dream much this week, but I still enjoyed the result: See this place.
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Couldn’t get my act together this week… so instead of an on prompt poem, here’s something quirky from last year: Becoming Waterwise
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AD today. Posting everywhere but in the right place. Here it is.
In the Quad
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I took a different take:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/11/skin-dreams.html
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I took a couple of dream images and went from there:
http://therer2doors.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/stay-off-the-back-roads/
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so, i searched past dreams searched for fragments
in trying to find more
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a great challenge this week! thanks and look forward to reading the dreams others.
http://beatnikprose.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-reverie.html
my poem this week, In Reverie
-lawrence
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“Moratorium” is composed of only two poetic lines.
http://theresebroderick.wordpress.com
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Derrick replied:
November 12th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Hi Therese,
I haven’t contributed yet. Rather difficult, I thought and not much time. But who knows?! Hope the dentist went OK.
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I have always experienced “wild & crazy” dreams and have collected a book full of them, so this prompt was fun! I just had to pick one that wasn’t to violent! Here it is:
http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com
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Here is mine.
Living In The Eastern Woodlands. My poem is Dancing Differently Through My Dreams
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Here’s mine, a dream based on a painting, The Dream, by Chagall.
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[...] quite anxious to hear what y’all think. Poems from other RWP participants can be found here. Japanese Plum Blossom from my back garden ~ [...]
This was a really great prompt and I found it pushed me out of my comfort zone as a poet. Thanks, Bruce!
“Perceptions from REM” is here:
http://zouxzoux.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/perceptions-from-rem/
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Here’s a link to my post for this prompt — my first shot at participating — hope I’m somewhere in the right ball park. . . http://bit.ly/31Uy9m
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Oops.If you click on the link I just submitted, you’ll wind up looking at a very scary Southern Black Widow photo I took awhile back. Here is the correct link to my post this morning: http://www.switchedatbirth.us/2009/11/readwritepoem.html Yikes. Sorry.
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This was a really great prompt and I found it pushed me out of my comfort zone as a poet. Thanks, Bruce!
“Perceptions from REM” is here:
http://zouxzoux.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/perceptions-from-rem/
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What’s easy, what’s hard? Using this not-mine computer and keyboard out of town – that’s hard!
Fragments. Yes. To a purpose? Just leave the binoculars at home!
http://bearlyaudible.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/dunne-avenue-incomplete/
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OK, I finally managed to cobble something together. It is a short response to Rallentanda’s offering, in which she kindly gave me a supporting role!
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-dreamland.html
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Gah! Excuse the 3 entries by me….I forgot to log in the first time and I didn’t know a track back would post here. I’m really not that egotistical.
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Elizabeth Westmark replied:
November 13th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
At least you didn’t post a link to a graphic photo of a black widow spider like I did by mistake!
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Lucky for me, I had some persistent dreams this past week…
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/11/tending-fire.html
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http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/11/hither.html
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here is mine…DREAMING
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com
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Here’s mine on dreams and cities and darkness and lights:
On the Edges of Cognition
http://thinkingcities.blogspot.com/2009/11/on-edges-of-cognition.html
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