I’m thrilled that my artwork has been chosen by Rattlemag’s editor for the February Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge. I’m also super-excited, as this means I’ll get to read some ekphrastic poetry. I love ekphrastics – their potential for collaboration between visual and words, and the way… Read more
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Ekphrastic Competition with Rare Swan Press
As a co-judge of an Ekphrastic competition (the image above as a starting point), what I wasn’t suspecting was the sheer quality of entries. And that’s not just the shortlisted entries. All the poetry I read that had been written in response to the image… Read more
Displaced
a collaboration with Jesse Anger
Little dioramas
Surrealist Found Poem Challenge for Creativity Works
First, I’d like to thank everyone who participated in this brave and curious venture. Here’s our collaborative found poem made by putting together all the individual pieces.
The poems were absolutely lovely, and stood alone very nicely indeed (you can see them on the wakelet at the bottom of this post). This also means that it was difficult / impossible to try to put them together in ways that didn’t dilute the intriguing possibilities of the originals.
Particular kudos to Amanda for presenting a perfect line of iambic tetrameter. In non-technical terms that means four beats in the line, the stress (beat). Her poem reads: fast come that dead and somber fall (beats in bold).
Also kudos to everyone for the amazing visuals! They were all beautiful, but I particularly loved the torn out words from lighthouse creative therapy. The fonts and assemblage gave the found poem a kind of vintage/reflective feel.
I’m going to present three versions of collaborative poetry from our informal collective of #CreativeSummer20. You can read them below. One uses all our lines, but the others have more editing. I’ve added punctuation to two but left one closer in spirit to the original cut out words, using lower caps and spacing to suggest where pause-points might be.
Let me know which ones you prefer, and do come up with your own, too and if you post to twitter with the hashtag I’ll share here.
Surrealist methods and a challenge
I’m excited to be volunteering for Creativity Works this week as part of their summer of creative wellbeing. There’s been some intriguing work posted (some of them with stunning visuals, too). Take part by watching the video and posting your text on twitter using the… Read more