writing prompts from class

While some poetry, like Jordan Scott's blert, are better read aloud, I find that the homonym poems we did in class last week are better read so you can see the different words used and their other meanings in context to the rest of the poem.

Here is the small bit I got in class. I do hope to add to it at some point.

fast paste wry bread roles
made with time
served with whine
on summary daze

Jordan Scott Link

A YouTube video of Jordan Scott reading from blert. I find I always enjoy poetry more when it is being read aloud. It is around 1:51 that he starts reading from the beginning of the book. Enjoy!

blert

I read Jordon Scott's blert over the weekend and found if very difficult to read. I guess that was maybe the point seeing this book of poetry represents stuttering, and the author notes in the back that he wanted it to be as difficult as possible to read. There were little bits like "word order = world adour" (13) that I enjoyed, but for the most part, it just gave me a headache. I did notice themes involving the mouth and speech and others such as ice and stanza with words starting/containing the same letters which I assume are words that are difficult for stutterers to say.

Dirty Fracking

A flarf/list poem combo.


Dirty Fracking

Fracking

Dirty fracking water

Fracking frenzy

Dangers of fracking

What is fracking?

Protesters

Anti-fracking protestors

What is fracking?

Crusaders

Anti-Fracking movements

What is fracking?

Fracking

Drilling

Cracking

Injecting

Gassing

Fracturing

Impacting

Dirty fracking water

What is fracking?

Assessing

Protesting

The dirty fracking water

Flarf Attempt # 1

Google Games

I don't like Mondays
Monday's Child is full of woe
Woe is me
Me to we
We can't stop
Can't stop, won't stop
Won't stop till we surrender
Surrender at 20
20 feet from stardom
From Jeopary stardom to mortgage suits
Suits online
Online games


I like how this one started out, but couldn't control where it went, which I guess is the point?
I started with Googling "I don't like" and Mondays is the first result without hitting enter, then I went on from there either Googling the last word, or last couple of words. I didn't always choose the first result, but always one from the four drop down results. But it is pretty hard to go anywhere interesting from "online games."

What the Flarf Indeed!

Having missed the class where we discussed Sharon Mesmer's book of "flarf" I was unsure how to come up with some of my own flarf poetry, so I Googled. Jim Murdoch, it seems, also isn't able to put into formula even though he has lots to say on the subject....

http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.ca/2011/09/how-to-write-flarf.html

Destination Unknown

This is the list poem from class... with stopovers added as well as a few other location themed events... not sure if I should add province abbrevs after each stop in Canada?

Destination Unknown

Arrive in Vanderhoof

Relocate to Vernon

Jet off to Milan

via Kelowna, Vancouver, Toronto, and Frankfurt

Bus to Verona, Venice, Pisa, Florence, and Nice

Catch a night train to Paris

Return ... somehow

Soar to Melbourne 

via Vancouver and Hong Kong

Catch a plane to Cairns, hitch a ride to Tully

Leap from plane in Mission Beach

Fly to Sydney, bus to Melbourne

Return via Los Angeles and Vancouver

Fly to Durban 

via Seattle, Atlanta, Dakar and Johannesburg

Drive to Mozambique and back

Return via Cape Town, Dakar, New York and Seattle

Wing to Cabo San Lucas 

via Seattle

Return via Seattle

Drive to St John's Newfoundland

via Edmonton

via Langham

via Saskatoon

via Moose Jaw

via Regina

via Rivers

via Winnipeg

via Kenora

via Thunder Bay

via Saulte Ste Marie

via Webbwood

via Sudbury

via Midland

via Penetanguishene

via Toronto

via Hamilton

via St Catharine’s

via Niagara Falls

via Ottawa

via Montreal

via Quebec City

via Fredericton

via Saint John

via Alma

via Moncton

via Rocky Point

via Charlottetown 

via Cavendish

via Halifax

via Peggy's Cove

via Port aux Basques

and reverse

Direct flight to Puerto Vallarta

Return via Calgary

Next destination...

Lyn Hejinian

After looking into Lyn Jejinaian I discovered that she is an essayist as well as a poet, which made her style of poetry make sense.
A clip of her reading some of her poetry:

My Life - Lyn Hejinian

This "glimpse" feels almost more like a story than a poem, especially because it is in prose form with the chapter-like division.  It does, however, have short sentences and a very poetic language. Reading it too, it almost felt like scenes of a life flashing, yet very peacefully. 

Fridge Poetry 2nd Edition