| Today is July 29, 2010 |
NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook had a fun show this week on memorizing poetry. You can listen to the podcast here or on iTunes. Check it out for some insightful thoughts on memorizing poetry!
Do you memorize poetry?
Everyone has their own creative process. You are well aware of the ways in which you “get it down on paper,” but how do other people do what they do?
Hit and Run Magazine has the photographic evidence of writers’ work, as it gets done and the evidence is fascinating. Notes scribbled in tiny handwriting on receipts, doodles and sketches in the margins of notebooks, a desk complete with a stiff drink and a pack of cigarettes–each photo a little window into the behind the scenes work that goes into being a writer of any kind.
I encourage everyone to share their own images of creativity-in-process here and, better yet, you can share images with Hit and Run:
It’s that time again. Time for you to submit. Dig in the closet. Look under the couch. Check the trash. Somewhere, you’ve got some notes for a poem, story, novel, or bank robbery scheme.
1) Type “Submission” in the subject line. 2) Insert a brief bio in the body of the message. 3) Attach a jpg or gif image of your submission. 4) Include a title for your piece. 5) Email to hitandrunmag@aol.com.
Five fingers: five steps.
There are approximately 650,000 publications to which you can send completed stories and poems.This is not one of them.
If camera/scanner challenged, some kid will do it for next to, but not, nothing.
“Those who do not do are condemned to repeat what they didn’t do.” ~ Anonymous
Paul A. Toth
Editor
They can be found at hitandrunmagazine.blogspot.com
and on Facebook.
Yes, you can read the entire text of the 2009 edition of Bozeman’s favorite chain-writing exercise, and you can read that text RIGHT HERE on the Consortium of the Creative Nudge. Just visit the Foolish Words 2009 page at http://foolish.creativenudge.org and start reading.
I’ll give a prize to anyone who can untangle all the plot lines that got thrown into the story this year. And that prize will be $1 million imaginary dollars that will be instantly transferred from my imaginary Swiss bank account to your imaginary Swiss bank account by imaginary Swiss bankers at imaginary computers wearing imaginary European-style suits and drinking imaginary cappuccinos.
Tonight the Leaf & Bean downtown saw a group of people like no other–writers! Foolish Words 2009 came to a delightful end with the famed reading-of-the-story. We hobnobbed, drank coffee, read and laughed and now we are at home basking in the afterglow of a good evening spent with great people.
But wait! It doesn’t have to end there. At precisely 1:01 a.m. each writer’s contribution will be published, one by one, at foolish.creativenudge.org.
Tell your friends! Threaten your relatives! Relive the foolishness yourself!
April is National Poetry Month and as I watch the snow falling and hear the cars driving through slush outside my window I can’t help but wish for spring a little bit, so this month I’m looking for springtime poems or anything springy inspired by poems. I’ll be sharing some of my favorite springy poems, photos, etc. throughout April and I encourage you to do the same.
Think Green and glowing! Think awakened and growing! Think road construction and rain!
Maybe if we focus real hard spring will become a reality instead of just a wish…
The annual add-on story written by Gallatin valley writers and brought to us by the legendary Ray Sikorski has been completed.
Foolish Words 2009 will reach it’s culmination with tonight’s gala event and reading of the story at the Leaf and Bean downtown.(Okay, maybe not “gala”, but most likely super-fun!) Many, many cooks have been in the kitchen over the past couple of months and their hands have deliciously muddled this story started by the illustrious word chef Ryan Cassavaugh way back in January.(I’m officially done with the food metaphor now… maybe I’m hungry…) Come on down to the Leaf and Bean at 6:30 p.m. and get your helping of foolishness.(Ooops, I guess I wasn’t quite done with the food metaphor.) I’ll be there to read my part, as will many other Nudgers. Hope to see you there!