CFS: Poetry Barter Project
For the second summer in a row, I am trading poems for food.
Last year, I traded for lilacs, dandelions, rhubarb, nasturtiums, hyssop, deer sausage, grape leaves, zucchini flowers, cherries, apples, and pickerel.
This year, I am interested in fiddleheads, spruce bud tips, nettles, burdock, caragana, chicken-of-the-woods…and anything else edible that can be grown or foraged in the city.
How does it work? Say you’ve got abundant lilac. You email me at poetrybarter@gmail.com to say you’d trade a vaseful for a poem. You provide me with 5 words to use in the poem: dinosaur, birds, love, childless, peace. In a week's time, I visit your house/apartment/garden plot, pick a bouquet of lilac, and hand over a fresh poem.
About me:
Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg writer. Her first book of poetry, Hump(Palimpsest Press, 2010), won the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry at the Manitoba Book Awards, as did her second collection, Stowaways(2014). She is currently working on creative non-fiction about Winnipeg’s urban forest, slated for publication with Wolsak & Wynn in 2018.
Deadline: October 31, or when frost kills everything.
So, who has lilac/fiddleheads/nettles/mushrooms/etc and NEEDS a poem written just for them?
Last year, I traded for lilacs, dandelions, rhubarb, nasturtiums, hyssop, deer sausage, grape leaves, zucchini flowers, cherries, apples, and pickerel.
This year, I am interested in fiddleheads, spruce bud tips, nettles, burdock, caragana, chicken-of-the-woods…and anything else edible that can be grown or foraged in the city.
How does it work? Say you’ve got abundant lilac. You email me at poetrybarter@gmail.com to say you’d trade a vaseful for a poem. You provide me with 5 words to use in the poem: dinosaur, birds, love, childless, peace. In a week's time, I visit your house/apartment/garden plot, pick a bouquet of lilac, and hand over a fresh poem.
About me:
Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg writer. Her first book of poetry, Hump(Palimpsest Press, 2010), won the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry at the Manitoba Book Awards, as did her second collection, Stowaways(2014). She is currently working on creative non-fiction about Winnipeg’s urban forest, slated for publication with Wolsak & Wynn in 2018.
Deadline: October 31, or when frost kills everything.
So, who has lilac/fiddleheads/nettles/mushrooms/etc and NEEDS a poem written just for them?
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