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NaPoWriMo 2008 - Check In

NaPoWriMo is 2/3 through. How's the month of poems going for you?  So far I've only missed one day, the day I did the taxes.  That seems reasonable, somehow. At first I thought everything I wrote was dreck, but lately I sense the outline of a poem in several of the drafts.  That what drafts are all about, right?  I've been using my LiveJournal blog. Outsiders can only read the most recent attempt.  Add me as your LJ friend, if you want to see the month-long trajectory.

Anne Boyer

Robert Lee Brewer

Sharon Brogan

Julie Carter

Shanna Compton (if not there, try Bloof)

Catherine Daly

Michelle Detorie

Carrie Ettar

Experiments in Daily Verse

Christa Forster

Susana Gardner

K. Lorraine Graham

Janet Holmes

Geof Huth (vispo!)

Reb Livingston

T.A. Noonan

January Gill O'Neil

Danielle Pafunda (if not there, hanging with Shanna)

Alexis Quinlan

Evie Shockley

Carmen Gimenez Smith

Laurel Snyder

Christine Swint

Maureen Thorsen

Elizabeth Treadwell

Jen Tynes

Tria Wood

Here's my list of NaPoWriMo players.  Leave me your name and link as a comment below, and I will gladly add you to the list.  If you're on the list and prefer anonymity, I can arrange that as well!

NaPoWriMo 2008

Are you in?

Who's up for writing a poem a day during the month of April?

NaPoWriMo officially begins tomorrow, on April Fool's day, naturally. This underground event was launched five years ago by poet and blogger Maureen Thorsen. Here's her recent reflection about the evolution of the project. At this point, it is even branded.

However in a typical poet (i.e. anti-corporate) move, as you can see, the logo options are manifold.

I did this exercise last year and enjoyed it, mostly because of the kind camaraderie involved. I will be using my LiveJournal blog.  Email me if you'd like to link up in LJ land.  I'm compiling a list of participants.

Anne Boyer

Robert Lee Brewer (providing daily prompts to aid and abet!)

Sharon Brogan

Julie Carter

Shanna Compton (if not there, try Bloof)

Catherine Daly

Michelle Detorie

Carrie Ettar

Christa Forster

Susana Gardner

K. Lorraine Graham

Janet Holmes

Geof Huth (vispo!)

Reb Livingston

T.A. Noonan

January Gill O'Neil

Danielle Pafunda (if not there, hanging with Shanna)

Alexis Quinlan

Evie Shockley

Carmen Gimenez Smith

Laurel Snyder

Christine Swint

Maureen Thorsen

Elizabeth Treadwell

Jen Tynes

Tria Wood

Leave me your name and link as a comment below, and I will gladly add you to the list.  If you're on the list and prefer anonymity, I can arrange that as well!

Just Another Moleskine Monday

  moleskinerie turns two 
  Originally uploaded by R.bean to Flickr

Here's a wonderful collage celebrating the 2nd birthday of Moleskinerie. It has occurred to me in a waking dream that perhaps Big Window wants to become Moleskinerie when it grows up.  Time will tell.

More Moleskine

Uploaded to Flickr by Occam`s razor

Why not say the obvious?  I'm obsessed with notebooks.

Moleskine

moleskine page, originally uploaded by girlhula.

I love notebooks.  My friends told me I missed the AWP panel where Charles Simic talked about his.

The New EOAGH

You can check out the latest edition of EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts online now.  The journal is edited by Tim Peterson. One of my poems is published in this issue.

The table of contents includes:

Language Poetry and The Body: A Panel by Maria Damon, Steve Benson, Leslie Scalapino, and Bruce Andrews

ORDERED FRAGMENTS (        ) OF A DISORDERED DEVOTION
by Charles Alexander

OFF THE TOP OF MY RADIO HEAD
by Stephen Paul Miller

Inbetweeness
by Veronica Wong

Lydia Davis' Proust reviewed by Michael Gottlieb

And poems by Gilbert Adair, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Cara Benson, Charles Borkhuis, Allen
Bramhall, Laynie Brown, Marie Buck, Laura Carter, Christopher Casamassima, Joel Chace, James Cook, Lisa Cooper, Clayton Couch, Bruce Covey, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Jonathan Doherty, Thom Donovan, Jim Dunn, kari edwards and Chris Martin, Thomas Fink, Skip Fox, Joanna Fuhrman,  Rebecca Gopoian, Andy Gricevich,  Arielle Guy,  Barbara Henning, Mitch Highfill,  Dan Hoy, Thomas Hummel,  Paolo Javier,  Paul Foster Johnson, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Lin Kelsey, Brendan Kreitler, Ruth Lepson, Hillary Lyon, Jami Macarty, Nicholas Manning, Sara Marcus, Bonnie Jean Michalski, Joe Moffet, Rich Murphy, Sheila Murphy and Scott Glassman, Chris Murray, Shin Yu Pai, Dawn Pendergast, Patricia Peterson, Simon Pettet, Nick Piombino, Laurie Price,  Karen Randall, Robin Reagler, Marthe Reed, Evelyn Reilly, Edwin Rodriguez, Linda Russo, Frank Sherlock, James Sherry, Ron Silliman, Gregory Vincent St Thomasino, Rob Stanton, Jordan Stempleman, Ray Succre, Shelly Taylor, Adam Tobin, Andrew Topel, Rodrigo Toscano, and Lynn Xu.

Womb

Check out the great new issue of WOMB.  It's online and at your ready.  The writers/artists featured in this issue are:

Kelli Russell Agodon
Nicole Cooley
Kate Greenstreet
Luisa A. Igloria
Eve Rifkah
Jennifer Karmin
Nicki Hastie
Raina León
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Arlene Biala
Nava Fader
C Mehrl Bennett
Laura Goldstein
Jill Alexander Essbaum
Kristen Orser
Pearl Pirie
Kathryn Douglas
Angela Veronica Wong
Juliet Cook
Lillian Baker Kennedy

Michelle Detorie, editor

(below, photography by Kate Greenstreet)

Mo on NaPoWriMo

Apparently NaPoWriMo has not one but two logos?  Which one do you prefer?  I like this one by Maureen. It has an exquisite corpse quality to it that appeals to me.

For the month of April, I've decided to give this poem-a-day challenge a try.  Instead of posting the poems here, however, I'm going the more private route via LiveJournal.  It's free and easy to set up and you can label things so that only selected individuals can read what you're writing.  I'm going to post drafts there.  If you want to join me, add me as a "friend" on LJ, and I will do the same. 

NaPoWriMo 2007

Every poet knows that April is the cruelest month and that fact alone makes it the perfect time for National Poetry Writing Month or NaPoWriMo 2007.  This year there's even a logo for it.

All that is required of you, dear poet, is one poem a day.  Are you in?

Oulipo: A Story of Three Peas

Your irony doesn't please me a bit, replied the other, and you'll not learn a thing.

Check out Raymond Queneau's  tale about three alert peas.  Yes, peas.    "A Story as You Like It" meets hypertext here. 

Read/create/enjoy.

Visualize This

If you have always wanted to see your ideas quivering before you like a constellation of stars, you might enjoy the visual thesaurus.  Type a word into the box at the top of the page.  The website produces what they call a "ThinkMap" charting that word and all the associated meanings. 

The target audience, as I understand it, includes writers.  Have you ever used this tool before?  I'm wondering what kind of writers would be aided by this.  I've never been keen on the thesaurus myself, but I do like maps. 

A "Best of" for the 21st C

The annual Best American Poetry series is one of those publications that most poets I know love to hate.  Check out a new "best of" book that chooses work published only on the Internet.  I found favorites of mine, such as  Peter Jay Shippy and I also "discovered" poets new to me, such as Anne Boyer.

 

You Will Want Like Cowboys

I will want like splinters,
astonished spit, also like alphabets and minnows.

You will want at smallness,
also squirreling across the wire.

Wantings in the wilderness!
What did you think,

words?
You've seen it all before.

That's my last duchess—
all I want I've learned from her.

I want all I've learned from her.
Like Goya and church

you will fever like derangement.
You will lick no less

the ecstatic, and you will grow no more
accustomed to this dirty purse

than I to breathlessness
or pavement.

There is Kansas in the wilderness.
There is not cloudy.

All day the fingering, there your gaze,
there I will saddle up

the pillow, buckle, bobbin, tongue
I wanted from.

-Anne Boyer (Coconut)

SnowGlyphs by Geof Huth

Visual poet Geof Huth is always creating amazing things that I never really imagined possible.  Check out his poems in the snow at Unlikely 2.0.

And if you ever end up in Schenectady, New York, on a snowy day, pay close attention to everything you see.

Resources for the Resourceful

Have you found Duotrope's Digest to be useful?   

I just learned about it via Jilly's Poetry Hut.

All Things Fluxus

It is with great glee that I recently discovered the

FLUXLIST.  (Click here for a previous post on Fluxus.)