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30 Apr

OULIPOST POEM 30: Goodbye

Well, it’s here.  The last day of Oulipost.  The last day of April.  It feels fitting that it’s RAINING where I am.  (Caps to emphasize just how much it’s raining.) …

29 Apr

OULIPOST POEM 29: Vincenzo Paxia

Today’s prompt from the Found Poetry Review’s Oulipost Project: Canada Dry! “The name of this procedure is taken from the soft drink marketed as ‘the champagne of ginger ales.’ The…

29 Apr

OULIPOST POEM 28: Melting snowball

Today’s prompt from the Found Poetry Review’s Oulipost Project: Melting snowball. “A text in which each word has one letter less than the preceding one, and the last word only…

27 Apr

OULIPOST POEM 27: A nearby residential street

Today’s prompt from the Found Poetry Review’s Oulipost Project: Irrational Sonnet. “Create a 14-line sonnet sourced from lines from your newspaper that is divided according to the first five digits…

27 Apr

OULIPOST POEM 26: Beautiful Outlaw

Today’s prompt from the Found Poetry Review’s Oulipost Project: Beautiful Outlaw! The outlaw in question is the name of the person (or subject) to whom the poem is addressed. Each…

25 Apr

OULIPOST POEM 25: eight Buddhas

Today’s prompt from the Found Poetry Review’s Oulipost Project: Larding! “Aka ‘line stretching.’ From your newspaper text, pick two sentences. Add a new sentence between the first two; then two…

25 Apr

OULIPOST POEM 24: Enough about Poetry

Today’s prompt from the Found Poetry Review’s Oulipost Project: Homosyntaxism! “Homosyntaxism is a method of translation that preserves only the syntactic order of the original words. To give a rudimentary…

23 Apr

OULIPOST POEM 23: a 14-YEAR-OLD LIGHT-HEADED MINOR

Today’s prompt from the Found Poetry Review’s Oulipost Project: Inventory! “Choose a newspaper article or passage from a newspaper article and ‘inventory’ the nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, articles, etc.…

23 Apr

OULIPOST POEM 22: Mist falling to the nowhere

Today’s prompt from the Found Poetry Review’s Oulipost Project: Antonymy! “In Oulipian usage, antonymy means the replacement of a designated element by its opposite. Each word is replaced by its…

21 Apr

OULIPOST POEM 21: Monsters

Today’s prompt from the Found Poetry Review’s Oulipost Project: Confabulation! “Craft a conversation poem using “he said/she said” quotes that you find in newspaper articles.“ I used quotes from Chris Christie…

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