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Napowrimo Day #9
Today’s poem is a sort of extreme reverse lipogram that only uses the letters in its title. I picked up this technique via Oulipo, but it’s actually much much older. A lot going on here, so my apologies in advance for any delayed or lackluster interaction today or in the next week. Sweet Things…
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Napowrimo Day #8
I’m in the trees, April love, in the water. Everything green to October. A perfect upward brightness, sunshine would never. Mention but this: birds are birds and I need the alive.
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Napowrimo Day #7
Today I decided to “write back” to yesterday’s poem. I’m uncomfortable with its relative clarity. Whenever I write like that I feel I’m going the wrong way, and one way to solve that is to dive into the contradictions, and poke fun at myself a little. I haven’t been titling most of these poems because…
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Napowrimo Day #6
I had a dream last night that I wanted to chase today, and thus this very raw and exploratory draft, very different from the work I’ve been doing this month. I’m unsure if anyone else will be able to see what I see in this, and I find when I write things that draw so…
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Napowrimo Day #5
No one but me to care for my little one today and too many other things to do, so I’m just writing a quick evening poem today. Not sure I’ll like this later, but sometimes these pieces done when I’m tired can surprise me when I go back to them. Ever since the world lit…
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Napowrimo Day #4
Yesterday I thought a few people liked the talk about process, so I thought I’d do it again since today’s poem too has an unusual origin (I do like experimenting with strange composition methods). Oddly, for me the process talk is making posting very-fresh poems less vulnerable, though you’d think it would be the opposite.…
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Napowrimo Day #3
In the grand writerly tradition of “I would have written less but I didn’t have time,” I’m posting two versions of a poem today. I’m not sure either is at all close to anything final, but there is enough of something there that I feel they’ll be worth coming back to later. These poems came…
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Napowrimo Day #2
This haiku emerged from my writing today. Most of the rest of what I wrote I’ll need to think about more, it and didn’t seem to be turning into a draft I’d want to share same-day, so I decided to just go with this. Yesterday’s poem was fresh in my mind, so yes it’s connected…
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Napowrimo Day #1
Just-full: a plump balloon. Breathe in, breathe out. This basic exchange: palms touch, and that’s how things happen. But what makes the jump? What takes a risky leap across this rift of friendship? We’ve forgotten muscles in the face. We’ve forgotten which fingers. The leap back to here. Pulling up all the moss that’s started…
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An Invitation to Fellow NaPoWriMo / GloPoWriMo Participants
For anyone who would like a somewhat different experience than what’s offered on the main National Poetry Writing Month website, I’m teaching an inexpensive course (US$10), “How to Write a Poem Every Day.” This is not to knock Na/GloPoWriMo (I’ll be doing it myself this year and am looking forward to the challenge – Maureen…
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