get your poem on #112

by Dave Jarecki

Where did the narrative wallpaper take you? Did you fall into a story of wagons and bottles, trip into a memory of women in gowns? Did you watch a repetitious universe burn up in the glow? Or maybe you ran with David Berman’s fragment and followed the Pennsylvanian sunset back down the local mountain.

Whatever you did, it’s time to share.

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dave jareckiDave Jarecki writes poetry, prose and strategic communications from his home office in Portland, Ore. Read and listen to his work, as well as the work of guest writers, at DaveJarecki.com.

get your poem on #111

by Nathan Moore

Did this week’s image prompt have you staring at a three-legged chair? Did you linger with the mystery? Or did you build some symbolic architecture? Tell a story? Write about something completely different?

Now’s the time to show off your work. Leave a link in the comments section. I’m excited to read what you’ve all made!

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Nathan Moore is community director and 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.

get your poem on #110

by Dana Guthrie Martin

Did you take this week’s prompt literally? Were you transported to another realm? Can you tell I am trying to do a little wordplay with the word transliteral?

Everyone has been sharing such delicious tidbits in the prompt this week — I really can’t wait to see what you all came up with. So leave a link. You know you want to.

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Dana Guthrie Martin is the founder of Read Write Poem. She writes things and stuff. Most of the time, her things and stuff happen to be poetry, or at least they call themselves poetry. She has a robot named Feldman. He’s writing a book of poems.

get your poem on #109

by Deb Scott

It’s Thursday, and time to post links to this week’s poems (or leave us your poem in the comments).

Last week’s Read Write (Word) Prompt suggested you beg, borrow or steal a few (or a lot of) words. Did you? Or did your writing come from someplace entirely different. (That’s OK, too. You never have to write to the prompt. We are not like that around here.) Whatever you did, or didn’t do, share it. And come back tomorrow for the next great prompt.

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Deb Scott is a community director for Read Write Poem. She also co-manages the Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour. In past lives she used to borrow her friends clothes all the time. She doesn’t do that anymore, but she does steal her husbands desserts on occasion. Deb blogs at Stoney Moss.

get your poem on #108

by the Read Write Poem Staff

Last week’s prompt by Matthew Zapruder invited us to explore the relationship between our individual use of language and the ways language can express itself through us. Were you able to get a sense of the tension between the particular and the absolute?

How was your work with the dictionary? What could be more fun than swimming around among words both common and strange? Let’s see what you came up with!

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get your poem on #107

by Andre Tan

Did you find inspiration in the light of last week’s image? As was mentioned, for every poem written in response to the prompt, we will be donating one food item (or its cash equivalent up to $150) to Hopelink, a wonderful Seattle area organization that assists those in need.

On behalf of the Read Write Poem directors (Dana, Nathan, Deb and myself), thank you for taking the time to write and share your work during this busy holiday season, and every week. We wish you the best for the coming year!

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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.

Andre Tan is Read Write Poem’s technology director. Whenever the right side of his brain subdues the left side with an oversized ACME mallet, he can be found creatively frolicking with a motley assortment of poets, filmmakers, actors and other artists.

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