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.) …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
