I’ve fallen a little behind with June’s 30/30 challenge, but wanted to share today’s prompt as it’s book-related, and I love the cover. Esther Poyer asks “What is the title of the book nearest to you?Open it to page 23.Use the first line of the second paragraph to write a poem. You do not need to use the whole sentence (if it is a novel, or prose), use the first line, where the line breaks to a new line.” For me it’s Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Robber Bride’ (Virago, 1994), because of course, as a librarian my shelves are alphabetical by author :). The line will be a tricky one to write from, I think: “Tony’s office is large, larger than it would be in a modern buil-|ding” Something for tomorrow, perhaps.

I’ve fallen a little behind with June’s 30/30 challenge, but wanted to share today’s prompt as it’s book-related, and I love the cover.

Esther Poyer asks

“What is the title of the book nearest to you?

Open it to page 23.

Use the first line of the second paragraph to write a poem.

You do not need to use the whole sentence (if it is a novel, or prose), use the first line, where the line breaks to a new line.”

For me it’s Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Robber Bride’ (Virago, 1994), because of course, as a librarian my shelves are alphabetical by author :).

The line will be a tricky one to write from, I think:

“Tony’s office is large, larger than it would be in a modern buil-|ding”

Something for tomorrow, perhaps.

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My response to the 30/30 prompt, based on Ken Lum’s poster The End of Art, part of the Hayward’s innovative commission In Many Ways These Exhibitions Will Never Happen. I’ll post other challenge participants’ public responses as I become aware of them, but the blogs to check for poems and prompts are: Brain Candy First Person Narrative (my general blog) Moments of Chaos and Nostalgia Open Notebooks thirtypoemsin30days … and on.

My response to the 30/30 prompt, based on Ken Lum’s poster The End of Art, part of the Hayward’s innovative commission In Many Ways These Exhibitions Will Never Happen.

I’ll post other challenge participants’ public responses as I become aware of them, but the blogs to check for poems and prompts are:

Brain Candy

First Person Narrative (my general blog)

Moments of Chaos and Nostalgia

Open Notebooks

thirtypoemsin30days … and on.

3 years ago  1 note

As an example of this week’s prompt, here is the draft I wrote as part of the 30/30 Poetry Challenge last Saturday. It is part of a longer sequence of love poems between an apewoman and  a birdman. Esther is posting both the prompts we are using in the 3/30 challenge and her responses to them, including her brief and oblique reaction to Prof. Jones’ portrait, which she has titled ‘Hope’. Den’s piece, on her blog Brain Candy, is a stream of consciousness on the nature of the self (and the human). Thanks to Esther and Den for sharing their first drafts so publicly!

As an example of this week’s prompt, here is the draft I wrote as part of the 30/30 Poetry Challenge last Saturday. It is part of a longer sequence of love poems between an apewoman and  a birdman.

Esther is posting both the prompts we are using in the 3/30 challenge and her responses to them, including her brief and oblique reaction to Prof. Jones’ portrait, which she has titled ‘Hope’.

Den’s piece, on her blog Brain Candy, is a stream of consciousness on the nature of the self (and the human).

Thanks to Esther and Den for sharing their first drafts so publicly!

3 years ago  1 note

I’ve fallen a little behind with June’s 30/30 challenge, but wanted to share today’s prompt as it’s book-related, and I love the cover. Esther Poyer asks “What is the title of the book nearest to you?Open it to page 23.Use the first line of the second paragraph to write a poem. You do not need to use the whole sentence (if it is a novel, or prose), use the first line, where the line breaks to a new line.” For me it’s Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Robber Bride’ (Virago, 1994), because of course, as a librarian my shelves are alphabetical by author :). The line will be a tricky one to write from, I think: “Tony’s office is large, larger than it would be in a modern buil-|ding” Something for tomorrow, perhaps.

I’ve fallen a little behind with June’s 30/30 challenge, but wanted to share today’s prompt as it’s book-related, and I love the cover.

Esther Poyer asks

“What is the title of the book nearest to you?

Open it to page 23.

Use the first line of the second paragraph to write a poem.

You do not need to use the whole sentence (if it is a novel, or prose), use the first line, where the line breaks to a new line.”

For me it’s Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Robber Bride’ (Virago, 1994), because of course, as a librarian my shelves are alphabetical by author :).

The line will be a tricky one to write from, I think:

“Tony’s office is large, larger than it would be in a modern buil-|ding”

Something for tomorrow, perhaps.

My response to the 30/30 prompt, based on Ken Lum’s poster The End of Art, part of the Hayward’s innovative commission In Many Ways These Exhibitions Will Never Happen. I’ll post other challenge participants’ public responses as I become aware of them, but the blogs to check for poems and prompts are: Brain Candy First Person Narrative (my general blog) Moments of Chaos and Nostalgia Open Notebooks thirtypoemsin30days … and on.

My response to the 30/30 prompt, based on Ken Lum’s poster The End of Art, part of the Hayward’s innovative commission In Many Ways These Exhibitions Will Never Happen.

I’ll post other challenge participants’ public responses as I become aware of them, but the blogs to check for poems and prompts are:

Brain Candy

First Person Narrative (my general blog)

Moments of Chaos and Nostalgia

Open Notebooks

thirtypoemsin30days … and on.

As an example of this week’s prompt, here is the draft I wrote as part of the 30/30 Poetry Challenge last Saturday. It is part of a longer sequence of love poems between an apewoman and  a birdman. Esther is posting both the prompts we are using in the 3/30 challenge and her responses to them, including her brief and oblique reaction to Prof. Jones’ portrait, which she has titled ‘Hope’. Den’s piece, on her blog Brain Candy, is a stream of consciousness on the nature of the self (and the human). Thanks to Esther and Den for sharing their first drafts so publicly!

As an example of this week’s prompt, here is the draft I wrote as part of the 30/30 Poetry Challenge last Saturday. It is part of a longer sequence of love poems between an apewoman and  a birdman.

Esther is posting both the prompts we are using in the 3/30 challenge and her responses to them, including her brief and oblique reaction to Prof. Jones’ portrait, which she has titled ‘Hope’.

Den’s piece, on her blog Brain Candy, is a stream of consciousness on the nature of the self (and the human).

Thanks to Esther and Den for sharing their first drafts so publicly!

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