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Oulipost #27: A Novel Mashup

Posted on April 27, 2014 by katemccarrollmoore

Oulipost #27:Create a 14-line sonnet sourced from lines from your newspaper that is divided according to the first five digits of the irrational number pi – that is, into stanzas of 3, 1, 4, 1 and 5 lines. As with … Continue reading →

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Oulipost #26: Limbo

Posted on April 26, 2014 by katemccarrollmoore

Sourced from The Contra Costa Times, Bay Area News Group, April 26, 2014. Beautiful Outlaw (Belle Absente).The outlaw in question is the name of the person (or subject) to whom the poem is addressed. Each line of the poem includes … Continue reading →

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Oulipost #25: Another Friday Night in the Suburbs

Posted on April 25, 2014 by katemccarrollmoore

Oulipost #25. Larding: Aka “line stretching.” From your newspaper text, pick two sentences. Add a new sentence between the first two; then two sentences in the new intervals that have become available; and continue to add sentences until the passage … Continue reading →

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Oulipost #24: Lovesick

Posted on April 24, 2014 by katemccarrollmoore

Oulipost #24. Homosyntaxism is a method of translation that preserves only the syntactic order of the original words. To give a rudimentary example, if N=noun, V=verb and A=adjective, the outline NVA could yield solutions such as “The day turned cold,” … Continue reading →

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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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