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Prompt Number Eleven
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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Prompt Number Ten
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Prompt Number Nine
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A directory of our teams
We’re having a lovely time here with Andrea’s Brighter Light challenge. For those of you on a team or who have been following along, we’ve created a directory of all the teams (I’ve added links that teams have suggested that show something about where they’re from; if you’ve given me a link to your team’s blog, I’ve posted that as well). You can search this directory at any time to remind yourself about who is on a given team and where they hail from.
Oh, and challenge participants: if there’s a link I missed or you’d like to add, just let me know. Also, there’s a copy pinned to the Notice Board so you can remind yourself about any of the teams at any time ~ ina
Brighter Light teams
1. The Seasons
Ina and son Kash
San Francisco Area, California, US
http://baytrail.abag.ca.gov/vtour/map3/access/Btpalto/Btpalto.htm
2. Sunshine Elves
Amanda and daughter
Queensland, Australia
http://forestwoodfolkart.wordpress.com/
3. The Yellow Ninjas
Mariya and daughter Silviya
Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria
http://bulgariatravel.org/en/official_tourism_portal/
4. The Brothers Dragonosaurus
Sharon and her two grandsons (J-JAR 1.5 and J-JAR 3.5)
Alberta, Canada
http://dragonsareus.blogspot.ca/
5. The Awesome Earworms.
Linda H and her daughter
the Rems-Murr-Kreis in Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rems-Murr-Kreis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabia
6. The Erie Dearies
Marie Elena and her granddaughter Sophie
Lake Erie area, Toledo, OH
7. Icicles
Guðríður and her son Þorlákur
From Akureyri in northern Iceland
http://www.iceland.is/
http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/akureyri/
8. The Sparkly Snowflakes
Pearl and her grand girls (!) Halle Lynn and Rori Cate
Lido Beach, New York and Newton, Massachusetts, US
http://sparklysnowflakes.blogspot.com/
9. The Chain Letters
JLynn, her son and many other helper-elves!
Chain O’Lakes area, Illinois, US
http://www.pbase.com/gerdakettner/chain_olakes_state_park
10. Alabama Tarheels
Nancy and Alyssea
Hickory, North Carolina and Florence, Alabama; USA
11. The Vikings
Søs and Ingrid
From Denmark
http://bronshojbasket.dk/cms/ShowContentPage.aspx?ContentPageID=25
12. Pragon
Claudette and Sidse
Northern Rocky Mountains, US and Sejer Island, Denmark
http://trailinginspirations.wordpress.com/
13. The Northstar Wolves
Michele and her daughters Mikayla and Samantha
Minnesota, US
http://www.exploreminnesota.com/index.aspx
14. Queen Flower and the Princesses Sugar
Jacqueline and her two daughters
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
http://www.go-arizona.com/Phoenix/Photos-Videos/
http://www.phxtaco.com/
15. The Poetry Writers
Barbara and her student Raybert
Stamford, CT, US
Beautiful Stamford (Google Image Search)
A little Friday surprise: Talk to me
Last month I was looking for a particular ee cummings poem. And in the middle of the search, I ran across an archive of cummings reading his own work. Like this: love is thicker than forget. Since then, I’ve searched all over for poets reading their own works. I particularly love Fishouse Poems, which archives recordings of emerging poets. There’s an amazing poem by Amaud Johnson which you have to hear. Turns out there are archives all over the net of people reading amazing works. Of their own. Wow.
A poet we’ve interviewed on this very blog, Jay Sizemore, has posted some recordings of his poems on youtube. It’s an amazing experience listening to them – it’s not that the poems are better spoken, but different. I get different things out of using my ears than my eyes. I think we all do. I want to do a search sometime soon for youtube videos of people signing poems in ASL (which I don’t know much of, but a tiny bit) – I think I will learn a lot.
It is good to read one’s draft poems aloud. It’s like getting several months away from them, it’s that fresh. All the slightly wrong notes are obvious; all the truly “on” moments stand out in great beauty.
If you find that you like reading your poems, there are not only open mics where you can speak your word in public but there are journals that will publish your works…in audio. These venues range from the multicultural spoken word standard, Visions With Voices, to the multi-media-friendly new magazines like shuf that include audio works. I’m thinking sometime that IOBs might want to try publishing audio works too.
So my thought for Friday? Let’s talk.
Hello teams!
Please go to Prompt Number Eight and read Pearl’s comment and my reply and if you have time to comment, it would be just great. Creating prompts is not new to me but creating a challenge like this is new so your feedback here is important to me.
Prompt Number Eight
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Prompt Number Seven
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Prompt Number Six
Have you ever heard of Brown Daddy Long Legs?
“The Chain Letters” knows all about him and soon will we.
http://www.pbase.com/gerdakettner/image/102353622
Now, write a poem about spiders.
Prompt Number Five
We are on the road. We are in the lead! We are up in the air. We are down on the trail. We are in Rudersberg.
“The Awesome Earworms” is here!
Go to this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGNwkpnOUIY
Did I mention that our caravan is the one over to the left?
Now, tell us in a poem about speed, well, driving, driving fast – something that makes us feel that our adrenalin runs high.
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