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Oulipost #30: Patchwork Quilt Conclude the project by writing a poem that incorporates words and lines from all of your past 29 poems.   Suddenly silent inside Distant memories coming into focus in dreamlike fashion All these promises have been … Continue reading →

Oulipost #29: Canada Dry. The name of this procedure is taken from the soft drink marketed as “the champagne of ginger ales.” The drink may have bubbles, but it isn’t champagne. In the words of Paul Fournel, who coined the … Continue reading →

Sourced from The Contra Costa Times, Bay Area News Group, April 28, 2014 (Double-layered passwords help secure accounts, Anick Jesdanun)

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 →

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 →