{"id":324,"date":"2014-08-10T23:01:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T05:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writinginthemargins.ca\/?p=324"},"modified":"2014-08-10T23:01:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T05:01:26","slug":"patchwork-poetics-week-2-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writinginthemargins.ca\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Patchwork Poetics week 2 recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kettle boiling, jazz playing (Gretchen Lieberum<\/a> – one of my first introductions to the genre), lights dim… Sunday evening.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We had a lovely meeting today, despite (because of?) the fairly low energy we all brought to the space. I’ve been thinking about the poetry I wrote all day, spinning the poems around in my mind and trying to figure out how to process the feelings they brought up. That, to me, is the sign of a very productive workshop!<\/span><\/div>\n
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We wrote on three prompts.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The first, a five minute prompt, was based on Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge’s introduction to her book “poemcrazy.” We were invited “to drop a line into the pool of words around you and within you to begin making poems that express more than words can say, an act Allen Ginsberg calls ‘ordinary magic.'”<\/span><\/div>\n
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Our second prompt was from Agodon & Silano’s “The Daily Poet” for August 10: “Write a poem about the history of a relationship where each line is comprised of only six lines.” We wrote for 20 minutes on this one.<\/span><\/div>\n
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And our last prompt came from the Scrabble game that happened at the Possibilities Community Cafe on Friday, where the words “barfo\/barfot: a person who intentionally attempts to induce vomiting” and “snottweed: a) a pronunciation of “it’s not tweed” – snottweed; b) a tweed made of snot; c) a tweed clothing item worn to be used as a handkerchief” were coined. The prompt was to either use those words (with the provided definitions or your own) or to write a poem about\/including your own made up words. This was a 12 minute writing session.<\/span><\/div>\n
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And now a final fourth prompt for you to write on at home –\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Write a poem about desire. This could be any kind of desire – for food, time, friendship, love, sex – anything. If it’s helpful, start with a word bank of the terms that are associated with that specific desire. Give yourself 10 or 20 minutes depending on your preference, and write!<\/span><\/div>\n
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Then stretch. Breathe. You are doing amazing work, poets! Good job.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Kettle boiling, jazz playing (Gretchen Lieberum<\/a> – one of my first introductions to the genre), lights dim… Sunday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We had a lovely meeting today, despite (because of?) the fairly low energy we all brought to the space. I’ve been thinking about the poetry I wrote all day, spinning the poems around in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patchwork","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinginthemargins.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinginthemargins.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinginthemargins.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinginthemargins.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinginthemargins.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writinginthemargins.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinginthemargins.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinginthemargins.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinginthemargins.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}