Dust off Your Grecian Urns

For next meeting (10/8), we're writing an ode in the style of Lisa Jarnot's postmodernist prose poem "Ode" in GAPP. Here's a link to her reading the poem. Hope to see you there. http://www.naropa.edu/archive/audio/jarnot_lisa_99p015_clip_ode.mp3

Speculative History

For this week's obstruction/assignment, we're doing a proem that creates a new chapter in history, a moment that should have happened or one that could have happened but thankfully did not. I gave Billy Collins' poem "The History Teacher" as an example. Click here to read it: http://www.billy-collins.com/2005/06/the_history_tea.html.

See you at 7 on 9/24.

Orphee

Here's a link to Orphee by Jean Cocteau courtesy of Google.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3575294617584151007&ei=woSYSsanBKOmrAL7_cGEBA&q=orphee+cocteau&hl=en&client=firefox-a

"At the Quinte Hotel" by Al Purdy

Abbreviated Writers Unite!

Here is the first of possibly several to many posts on this here web log for the Abbreviated Writers' Group of Wesley Chapel. In an effort to get more people involved in the site, I wanted to have a space away from facebook on the web that anyone can access. I'll try to keep both spots up and running with updates for as long as I can or as long as both stay relevant.

Don't forget next week's assignment: a one sentence prose poem. I used the example from Killarney Clary. I found a link here to it from the LA Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1989-07-09/books/bk-5161_1

Kurt mentioned also the great poems from Whitman, one of which (not the one he mentioned, but another fine one) you can find here: http://www1.bartleby.com/142/51.html.

Next meeting: 8/27.