get your poem on #101
by Jessica Fox-Wilson
How did your poems progress? Did they pop with power and persuasion? Did they perk up with all the peppy P-words? Well, pony up and participate! Pull out the links to your p-p-p-poems and post them in the comments below. Personally, I am pleased as punch to see your pretty verses.
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 Jessica Fox-Wilson is a senior contributor and columnist for Read Write Poem. Her work includes the Read Write (Word) Prompts every month and the Just One (Book) Thing column. Visit her at her blog, Everything Feeds Process.
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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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A particularly pleasant prompt which sent me a bit peculiar… The Pies Have It
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Thanks, Jessica. I had fun. Oh, all right. I got carried away. The other two are posted along with plasterform
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barbara_y replied:
November 18th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
oops
http://wp.me/pdTja-pf
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intractability replied:
November 19th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Really enjoyed plasterform. In particular this verse, brilliant.
“Lime like bone is porous
it might suck up my prevarications
and form a shell of truth
reverse all my procrastination into hollow punctuality
and if I took my palm to that still-pliant form and pressed,
it could go flat as some white sheet of paper
or perhaps maintain some trace dimension
letting the vacant cubes of book impressions devolve
to trapezoids and parallelograms,
and globes become disk worlds with edges
drawn in plaster mache”
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Play:
http://makeda42.livejournal.com/47135.html
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MARIAN MOORE replied:
November 18th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Ummm…I used my own ‘P’ words. One of these days, I will read my homework assignment correctly.
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It’s all about p-p-p-poetry,
the poetry clinic
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[...] prompt for Read Write Poem #101 included a whole bunch of p-words. I added some of my [...]
Poem is posted.
Pomegranate
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St. Vincent’s School for Conformist Youth
I pray it’s passable!
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I like a wordle . Using all the words in the shortest verse possible is the challenge I’m setting myself.
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
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I can’t resist a Wordle prompt:
Pickled
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You’ll find mine in this post:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/religion
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I penned poetry, polished it prominantly
yet perfection isn’t personified:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/11/perfectly-plastered.html
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Here’s my petite pile of ‘p’s!
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2009/11/poetic-purpose.html
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Here’s mine, tenuously linked to the prompt by just one word…Celebrity
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“How It Is Said” uses “platitudes.”
http://theresebroderick.wordpress.com
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I’m late today. “Posthumously”
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I’m not sure, I think this belongs in a children’s book. Anyway, have fun on your visit to Planet of the Peas .
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Here is where you will find my weekly offering (such as it is) – “Silly Sonnet”
http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com
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Here is my poem which I was pleased to put together!
Living In The Eastern Woodlands. My poem is Living in the Valley of the Shadow of the Himalayas
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[...] is for the Wordle Word Bank prompt, which can be found here.This is a part of the Get Your Poem on Thursday fun and games, courtesy of Read [...]
http://radio-nowhere.org/nb/?p=287
A welcome respite from the ever relentless NaNoWriMo fun and games…
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I dipped into Blake, Hughes, my own old poetry, and the idea of sexuality being sacred for this one:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2009/11/17/i-too-say-amen/
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I missed you guys last week!
Here is my Pitiful “P” Parade:
http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/jjspoetry/2009/11/percolate-again-pleasemy-get-your-poem-on-100-offering.html.html
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Derrick replied:
November 20th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Hi Julie,
So far, I haven’t been able to read your poem. The link doesn’t connect for me. Is there any other way I can access it, please?
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Therese Broderick replied:
November 21st, 2009 at 4:21 am
Julie, For some unknown reason my computer won’t let me open to your blog, so I can’t read the poem and leave a comment. Regrets. Thank you for leaving a comment on my blog.
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Here’s mine, “Outside the First Presbyterian Church in November“. About half the Wordle p’s and a few more.
Will take me a while to visit everyone this week.
(Happy Thursday!)
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Here’s my p-p-poem!
To a Prodigious Pupil
http://thinkingcities.blogspot.com/2009/11/to-prodigious-pupil.html
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Praise Song for a Marine Climate
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Here is my reply to your P-word prompt, this was cool, enjoyed it immensely. Its titled “Not the P-Word Again”.
http://kevinharling2.wordpress.com/
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We might be a little slower than usual fishing comments out of the spam filter this morning. Please bear with us!
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Alas, I didn’t manage to write to the prompt this week, but I have a weekly Torah poem to offer:
Birthings
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2009/11/this-weeks-portion-birthings.html
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Ok. This is fun.
a poem called privacy
http://www.wendysmuse.blogspot.com
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I almost didn’t make it this week, but here’s my poem: Prosaic predicament.
It was really hard for me to focus on writing a poem and not a story for this one. I started a piece about “Preston, the privately polyamorous politician” but it felt too much like funny prose. In the end, I had to make it rhyme just to make it feel like poetry to me.
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Numeracy
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My first time writing for the weekly prompt! Here’s my poem, titled “Anti Anxiety”.
http://tinacelio.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/anti-anxiety/
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Pay Attention
All you prevaricators and participators of the paranormal, put away your pernicious piffle and poisonous parallelograms. Your plethora of poetasters and phonies will no longer prevent the propagation of the pure poesy – the processional now performing will prickle your brains to partake of the popular philosophy. The posthumous peddlers of political practicality are now perceived as plaster past its prime. Their porous proclamations are pilfered propaganda from a putrid past. The new paradigm prevails!
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barbara_y replied:
November 19th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
By george, I think you got it
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David Moolten replied:
November 20th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Quite a run of powerful prompt provoked prolixity…
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pratsie replied:
November 22nd, 2009 at 1:49 am
niiiice !!
lotsa P-words put perfectly 
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Pft. I phorgot til just now. A Pleiades poem to post.
Pleiades for RWP
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http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/11/peas-march.html
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I applaud everyone who wrote to this week’s wordle because it was a crazy-hard list of words.
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Between the 5 hr. chemo for my husband and warding off my reactions to the flu shot, I was exhausted yesterday. I will attempt to visit more of you today. Humble apologies.
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Here is mine using all the words
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com
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Pomegranate
http://shiyiya.livejournal.com/6840.html
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Late but still i tried :
http://talentishere.blogspot.com/2009/11/prompted-love-making.html
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