Let’s start a Revolution!!!!!!!!
Posted on 18 March 2008 by MysticWino
Let’s start a Revolution!!!!!!!!!!
April is national poetry month. Right, we knew that. So, the question is: WHAT are we going to do about it?
Last November I rocked the NaNoWriMo challenge (details elsewhere). How about this April we independently as a collective each make it our personal goal to write 100 poems! ONE HUNDRED POEMS in 31 . . . no, in only 30 days! Can you do it? If you’re game, pleas reply here and leave your blog address so we can all rock the Web and the World with a super abundance of poetry this April!!!!!!!!
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I think I can do it, or I’m darn well going to try. I’d like to know more.
-Nicole
http://ravenswingpoetry.wordpress.com
Welcome aboard! Thanks for joining.
I’m in. (Holy shit what did I just sign up for) but April has 30 days. Is my math blonde or wouldn’t that be 30 poems?
http://silentverses.com
~ Ali
BTW, Nicole? Love your site and its name.
Welcome aboard, Ali! (I had the same thought just a moment ago: holy Poot!) But we can do it. We have thitry days to do 100 poems. I’m the one with the blonde moment. Sorry. I’ll edit. Forgot whether my knuckles were 30 or 31 day months . . .
Hi Ali:
Thanks for the compliment. I visited your site too and I am totally wowed.
BTW David, I have kind of a blonde-ish moment right now - these 100 poems are going on our blogs, right? Or if not, where?
-Nicole
Ideally we post them on our blogs except for the very best ones, which we submit to every poetry publication we can find to publish it! Meantime, let’s just have a lot of fun and post what we post. I’ll take your word for it . . . no reason to do otherwise. Of course, the rest of the blogosphere might want to verify.
Of course, I’m in - I’ll spend the rest of March practicing ;^)
~ Sio
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100 poems in 30 days? that means at least 3 and a 1/2 poems per day per person? …and to top it all, I came in here late. I am going to try, who knows what my brain will come up with :).
I have a faint idea of how I will attempt to accomplish this Herculean task.
100 poems a day also equals about 25 poems a week. I work in spurts. I collect lyrics/verses in a small composition notebook I keep in my purse so that I don’t lose those lines that fly by in my head like a Jetson car-of-the-future. I then go back and compose later.
I’m not holding myself to writing three-ish poems a day, but I keep my eyes/ears/mind/heart open. I’m sure I can reconstruct some revolutionary art from what I collect.
-Nicole
Oops. I meant 100 poems in a month. I don’t know anybody who could write a 100 poems in one day. Then again, I could be wrong.
-Nicole
Nicole, don’t you wish WordPress would allow you to edit your own comments? I often wish that myself.
I am very much of a similar mind when it comes to production of poetry. I carry 3×5 cards around and scribble notes throughout the day. After collecting them, or after those snippets have composted in my subconscious, I write poems. I’m more likely to write 25 poems in two days than I am to write three a day for twenty days.
In the end, it comes down to this: what works for you works.
And we’re going for quantity here throughout April; drafting in April, crafting later.
Write well, write tight, submit good work.
David
I’ll join in. I don’t promise you that my poetry will be more than doggerel, but I’ll do what I can.
100 poems in one day… can I write haiku’s or limericks?
Sure, CW. You can write diminuendo if you like. It’s about quantity during April; you can craft later.
[...] Progress Update: 4/6/08 To date, I have written 15 poems for the Revolution, 10 of which I have posted [...]