get your poem on #102
by Deb Scott
It’s Thursday, and time to post links to this week’s poems (or leave us your poem, verbatim, in the comments).
Did you write about food associations or something else entirely? Was this week’s holiday (in the States) a prompt or an impediment? Whatever you did, share it with us, and come back all weekend to check up on your fellow poets. Some folks might have a big meal planned today and won’t have the (cough) [time] [fortitude] [guts] [stomach] to get back here for a day or two.
Please read this page to find out how the Get Your Poem On and Read Write Prompt posts work.
Remember that work linked from this post is shared in precisely that spirit: sharing, as opposed to critiquing.
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If you participate in a Read Write Prompt, we ask that you link back here in your posts, either with a link 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.
 Deb Scott is community and news director for Read Write Poem. She also co-manages the Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour. In her other life she eats way too much, plays with her food and words, and blogs at Stoney Moss.
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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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Ah, food! Bring a plate, or Just Bring Yourselves
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
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My holiday poem is titled:
“CHANTILLY“
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Hope everyone has a great holiday (non-Thanksgiving world can be thankful not to be in the stores come Friday)
mine is called dogbread
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Mine is a bit too prosy, The Occasioned Meal, but it’s a poem.
Off to sleep, I’ll read you tomorrow and the next few days. Happy, happy.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
My poem this week celebrates any feast/family get-together.
Christmas comes once a year
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You’ll find mine here:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/science
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This one of mine is entitled St. Patrick’s Day. Which fits with, um, Thanksgiving…?
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Mine is nothing to do with food:
ah, those wee hours
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Yeah, I skipped Thanksgiving and went right to Christmas… Hey, I’m Canadian; our Thanksgiving is in October.
Feast
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My offering is here:
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2009/11/seaside-souvenir.html
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
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http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2009/09/social-stigma.html
A very different ‘feast’ here.
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I gots one.
http://bluehookah.blogspot.com/2009/11/rwp-prompt.html
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This week I managed two poems: a response to the RWP prompt, and a Torah poem! Here are links to both:
RWP prompt #102: Homemade
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2009/11/readwritepoem-prompt-102-homemade.html
This week’s Torah poem: Hatch
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2009/11/this-weeks-portion-hatch.html
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With some help from Robert Frost, I wrote this contribution.
Living In The Eastern Woodlands. My poem is The Pumpkin Pie Not Taken
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Here is where you will find my short piece.
http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com
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Thanksgiving 1989
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Inspired by wine, a favorite of mine
http://metaphysicworld.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/wine/
Be as candid as you desire! I can take it, I promise! Also, feel free to check out my other poem blog posts!
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a bit of bread for Thanksgiving — happy day, everyone!
http://therer2doors.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/accident/
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Still, First, Almost, Too Long:
http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/jjspoetry/2009/11/still-first-almost-too-long.html
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Various branches of my family become silly & irreverent on the holidays, so I wrote a poem (and a very long prose introduction you can skip) inspired by that kind of humor – Ben Franklin Writes to His Daughter; Hunters Call Wild Turkeys
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it!
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Mangoes by the Road
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Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s mine: http://melaniesmasalamusings.blogspot.com/
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Mine is a revision of a poem written a while back and has a smattering of food. http://deowriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/adelanto/
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I wrote about hunger, which made me… hungry. And thankful for a day of eating. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
http://tinacelio.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/a-poem-on-food-and-hunger/
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I tried something about thanksgiving(s) in another attempt to bring math terms to common language:
Anaïs: Family dinner
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Happy Thanksgiving, for those in the United States who celebrate it! It’s great to see so many people writing to the prompt this week. I am very thankful for everyone’s participation here.
(These poems look like tasty morsels.)
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Mine, not so tasty. I went a different direction with the prompt:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2009/11/24/intersection/
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Happy holidays, everyone. The prompt took me in a weird direction
http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/rwp-prompt-102-food-associations/
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Hope everyone is having a pleasant holiday. Instead of a poem about food, of which I overindulged as usual, I ended up writing about thanksgiving, or more accurately gratitude, in this meditation about a poem by Robert Hayden,
Those Winter Sundays
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Here’s my contribution for the week, inspired by my career plans!
Creation
http://thinkingcities.blogspot.com/2009/11/creation.html
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finally….here is mine Feast For Grandpa
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com
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Is this actually still open for input? If so, here goes:
http://makeda42.livejournal.com/48174.html
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Deb Scott replied:
December 13th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
It is, but folks might not see it. You can add it to the current GYPO post & maybe more people will see your link (you don’t have to write to prompt, so it’s a-okay).
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