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About katemccarrollmoore

Kate Moore’s passion is literacy, and she serves as a mentor teacher and staff developer throughout the greater Bay Area. Kate served three terms as the City of San Ramon's Poet Laureate (2012-2018); she also teaches poetry writing workshops for children and adults. Kate holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership for Social Justice from California State University, East Bay, an M.A. in Teacher Leadership from St. Mary’s and a B.A. in English Education from SUNY Albany. She and Bob Moore are the proud parents of four beautiful grown daughters, and the smitten grandparents of eight beautiful children who fill them with hope for the future.

Oulipost #23: Inventory

Posted on April 23, 2014 by katemccarrollmoore

Inventory is a method of analysis and classification that consists of isolating and listing the vocabulary of a pre-existing work according to parts of speech. Sourced from The Contra Costa Times, Bay Area News Group, April 23, 2014 (Easy way … Continue reading →

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Oulipost #22: légion d’horreur

Posted on April 22, 2014 by katemccarrollmoore

Oulipost #22 : Antonymy. In Oulipian usage, antonymy means the replacement of a designated element by its opposite. Each word is replaced by its opposite, when one exists (black/white) or by an alternative suggesting antonymy (a/the, and/or, glass/wood). Select a passage … Continue reading →

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Oulipost #21: Overheard Over There

Posted on April 21, 2014 by katemccarrollmoore

Oulipost #21:Confabulation. Craft a conversation poem using “he said/she said” quotes that you find in newspaper articles.  Overheard Over There Gentlemen, the Easter Dragon is knocking at the door. I suspect some of you are skeptical. I know all these … Continue reading →

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Oulipost#20: Fairy Tale Concert

Posted on April 20, 2014 by katemccarrollmoore

Oulipost #20. Lesurean Permutation. Select a newspaper article or passage from a newspaper article as your source text. Switch the first noun with the second noun, the third noun with the fourth noun, and so on until you’ve reached the … Continue reading →

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Oulipost #19: And in the End…

Posted on April 19, 2014 by katemccarrollmoore

Oulipost #19: Sestina. A sestina is a poetic form of six six-line stanzas. The end-words of the lines of each stanza repeat those of the first, but in a differing order that in each successive stanza follows the permutation: 615243. … Continue reading →

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Oulipost#18: AMEN

Posted on April 18, 2014 by katemccarrollmoore

Oulipost #18: HOMOCONSONANTISM. Choose a sentence or short passage from your newspaper to complete a homoconsonantism. In this form, the sequence of consonants in a source text is kept, while all its vowels are replaced. THSLNCSNTRBSRSDFNNGTHYRR Amen This holy silence … Continue reading →

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Oulipost #17: Spring

Posted on April 17, 2014 by katemccarrollmoore

Oulipost #17: Haikuisation. The haiku is a Japanese poetic form whose most obvious feature is the division of its 17 syllables into lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Haikuisation has sometimes been used by Oulipians to indicate the reduction … Continue reading →

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Oulipost #16: Shrimp Boy Rag

Posted on April 16, 2014 by katemccarrollmoore

Oulipost #16: Chimera. The chimera of Homeric legend – lion’s head, goat’s body, treacherous serpent’s tail – has a less forbidding Oulipian counterpart. It is engendered as follows. Having chosen a newspaper article or other text for treatment, remove its … Continue reading →

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Oulipost #15: No Ransom, No Sun

Posted on April 15, 2014 by katemccarrollmoore

Prisoner’s Constraint: Imagine a prisoner whose supply of paper is restricted. To put it to fullest use, he will maximize his space by avoiding any letter extending above or below the line (b, d,f,g,h,j,k,l,p,q,t and y) and use only a,c,e,m,n,o,r,s,u,v,w,x … Continue reading →

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Oulipost #14: Painting by Life, the Neatness Extremist

Posted on April 14, 2014 by katemccarrollmoore

Oulipost #14: Column Inches. Refer to the advertising section or the classifieds in your source newspaper. Create a poem by replacing all of the nouns in your chosen ad segment or classified listing with nouns from one article in the … Continue reading →

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