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get your poem on #29

27 Comments Published by Ren June 2nd, 2008 in Get Your Poem On, Ren.

Did you mix and match this week? Did you try a new poetic form on, or try something outside your usual style? Let us know, and put a link to your poem in the comments.
Was your inspiration from something or somewhere else entirely? Tell us about it.
(We’re curious: Did you get to visit protestpoems.org this [...]

read write prompt #29 : mix and match

10 Comments Published by Ren May 28th, 2008 in Read Write Prompt, Ren.

I’ve been working in Classical Arab forms. When I told a friend of mine, an Algerian poet, he looked at me as if I’d said I was planning build a Frankenstein from body parts stashed in my basement. When I told him I’d written a “ghazal” (books say it’s pronounced to rhyme with puzzle) he [...]

get your poem on #22

39 Comments Published by Ren April 14th, 2008 in Get Your Poem On, Ren.

Sorry this is late, folks! Deb set the the publish date wrong.
Did you write for someone else this week? Was it Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, or someone else? Let us know here, and put a link to your poem in the comments.
Perhaps some other act of free speech moved you. Tell us. Link us.
Was your inspiration [...]

read write prompt: #22 speak freely

10 Comments Published by Ren April 9th, 2008 in Read Write Prompt, Ren.

This week we welcome one of our participants at Read Write Poem who will be joining our prompt team.
 
At fourteen Ren Powell read Helen Hayes’ admission of having misinterpreted: “And the Word was God”. Feeling a kinship with Hayes - an awe of the power of words - Ren swapped her teen-angst poems for playwrighting. [...]

WEEKLY READ WRITE PROMPT

July 2, 2008 — The current Get Your Poem On post is here. This is where you leave us a link to your blog, this week in response to Dana ShuffleWords idea, or any other kind of word play. (Or see if RWP-Twitter is for you!)

Next week's prompt will light you up. Thanks, Jill!



WEEKLY READ WRITE ARTICLES

June 26, 2008 — This month Jessica tells us which poets she first picked out to read, all on her own, because she wanted to. Who did you pick out?

Tom's Informal Talk About Forms has got more rhythm.

Christine's latest installment of Get The Lead Out discusses epigraphs. It's an inspired article.

We've been wanting more read here at Read Write Poem and Juliet brings it with her review of Spoken Word Revolution Redux.

January gives us a primer on revision.



POLL DANCE

July 5, 2008 — This time Carolee talks about how we talk about poetry we may not understand straight away in her "poll dance".

There's a new poll up. Yeah, a day early.



RANDOM PROMPTS

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RANDOM WRITING TIP

Write a narrative poem or an epic poem about an event in history that moves you. Do you feel drawn to a certain time period from the past? What about the music? It might be big band music, sixties folk rock, Duke Ellington jazz, Renaissance madrigals, Gregorian chants, sitar music, etc. Think of the food, the clothing, the setting and create a mood that’s evocative of the time period you’ve chosen.



RANDOM READING TIP

Spice it up! If you are tiring of the same old poetry-reading routine, try something new. Read in a new place, invite a friend to read with you, try a new flavor of poetry, or hunt for a new poet to read online.



RANDOM COLLABORATING TIP

Do one of the random writing tips listed above and invite a writing partner or partners to write a poem based on the same tip. Then share what you each wrote. What's similar and different about the way you each approached the assignment?


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