Monthly Archives: April 2014

Snowball: This procedure requires the first word of a text to have only one letter, the second two, the third three, and so on as far as resourcefulness and inspiration allow. Bombardier   9 On One Wild Train   Public … Continue reading →

Beautiful In-law (Beau Present) Select a name from one of your newspaper articles, famous or not. Compose a poem using only words that can be made from the letters in that person’s name. Lorenzo Alexander, philanthropic footballer, inspired me! Lone … Continue reading →

N + 7: Select a passage from one of your newspaper articles. Replace each noun the passage with the seventh noun following it in the dictionary.After I substituted the nouns I moved the words around until I was satisfied – … Continue reading →

  Blank Verse Among the Prose: Compose a poem using unintentional lines of iambic pentameter found in your newspaper.   BROKEN STORYLINES LITTER SPORTS PAGES   You can’t simulate the actual game I was completely obsessed as a kid   … Continue reading →

Tautogram: Compose a poem whose words — or at least the principal ones — all begin with the same letter. The words must be sourced from your newspaper. Posing Private people pinpoint proof: pathways posing as public prospects plead for … Continue reading →

In a Fibonacci sequence, each term is the sum of the two terms immediately preceding it; typically with 1 as the first term: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5,8, 13, 21, 34, 55 and so on. Select an article from your … Continue reading →

Oulipost #3: Definitional Lit: Homeboy Select a single sentence from a newspaper article. Replace each meaningful word in the text [verb, noun, adjective, adverb] by its dictionary definition.* Repeat this treatment on the resulting sentence, and so on, until you’ve had enough! Note … Continue reading →

A lipogram is a text that excludes one or more letters of the alphabet. The ingenuity demanded by the restriction varies in proportion to the frequency of the letter or letters excluded. For this initial exercise, you will compose a poem using only … Continue reading →

In this class, you’ll use everything. It’s personal, it’s logic-based, reason-based and spiritual It’s supposed to be fun Not fun like roller coasters are fun, but it’s supposed to be stimulating and satisfying It’s very much like kneading bread increasing, … Continue reading →