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Exit Oulipost – the Melting Interview

Originally posted on cloudberrytattoo:
It has been such a wild ride – I could not have imagined a writing experience more intense than last year’s Pulitzer Remix, but this was.  We’ve all been saying goodbyes and making plans to keep in touch and keep writing together (and I know we will!), but I wanted to…

A Post About Nothing

This is my Seinfeld post, a post about nothing. I am peculiar in that I thrive with a deadline, especially a daily one. That’s one of the reasons I loved working in publishing, there was always a deadline to beat, particularly when you’re trying to get a newspaper out every day. I feel at a […]

Oulipost Exit Interview: Oulipost Ends Where the Work Begins

Question 1: What happened during Oulipost that you didn’t expect? What are the best (or worst) moments for you? Right before Oulipost started I had attended a four-day intensive poetry workshop in Montreal with the Summer Literary Seminars (yes I know it was not summer in March). It was very fast-paced, hardcore, and I met […]

And More Raymond Cummings, Poem Bombing

This is a wicked cool thing (do kids say wicked anymore?) that Raymond Cummings (who has a new tumblr, check it out here) sent me a link to yesterday after I wrote my tiny “lookit the cool thing he said” post. Free Poetry For is a site set up for people to print out chapbooks […]

Raymond Cummings Thanks Poetry

Have I waxed rhapsodic about Raymond Cummings and his words yet? Not only does he have the best blog title on the internet but his Oulipost contributions have been by turns hilarious, cutting and inspired. At the end of National Poetry Month, Raymond had this to say: I think I just arrived at an epiphany […]

Oulipost #30 Patchwork Quilt

We Went “Because all the information is quite similar, whenever I look at it, my heart breaks.” A complex assemblage of consequent connection, the difference also depends on our perception, what it means to have achieved great things in the world. This bluster you can’t rescind, disconnect free from speech. Your favourite character is going […]

Oulipost #29 Canada Dry

Dyscopia It’s that time of year when decisions are made about the bottom line. So much depends upon the continuing existence of the need to distinguish between who we’re mad at, who we’re losing, who we’re taken from, our frailty. We are afraid of creating multiple offenders. You want to get caught. Your brain wants […]

Melting Snowball – “Spaceman”

Originally posted on Martin Elwell:
PROMPT: Melting Snowball A text in which each word has one letter less than the preceding one, and the last word only one letter. From your newspaper, select a starting word, and then continue adding words of decreasing length from the same source article or passage. Challenge yourself further by…

Oulipost #28 Melting Snowball

Your Potential Next Step Self-discovery, possibilities. Specializing experiences meaningful. Something consider mastery. Stretch lives. Seek can we, I. Reference: Eight questions to ask before you leap to a new job Today’s Oulipo prompt from The Found Poetry Review’s challenge for National Poetry Month is to create a poem using the Melting Snowball technique. A text […]

Oulipost April 27, 2014 – Irrational Sonnet: “About Being”

Originally posted on Trish Hopkinson:
About Being It’s not just about being a mother, not just about wiping runny noses and making peanut butter sandwiches, or longing for a play date that doesn’t include sippy cups or diapers, not just the muted perspective of motherhood that’s warm and fuzzy. It doesn’t happen overnight or by…