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OULIPOST #14: Column Inches

Posted in OULIPOST, PoeM, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »

MOUTH
FUNERAL OF THE
WIDOW—WORD
& HUSBAND

 

 

 

MEANT TO EVOKE
AN OBSCENITY
WITH COMEDY
OUTSTRETCHED &
POINTED
DOWNWARD,
VULGARITY WAS
DESIGNED IN
THEATRES BY A
RESPECTABLE
WIDOW.
FOR THE CORRECT
CATALYST, WATCH
FRIENDSHIP
TODAY OR LOOK
IN THIS SENTENCE
TOMORROW
IN THE HUSBAND.

 

 

 

 

 

 

“COLUMN INCHES
Refer to the advertising section or the classifieds in your source newspaper. Create a poem by replacing all of the nouns in your chosen ad segment or classified listing with nouns from one article in the same newspaper. You may use multiple ads/classifieds, presented in the order of your choosing.” – from The OULIPOST Handbook

For the “Column Inches” prompt, I began with the JEOPARDY! CLUE OF THE DAY; I have only been sourcing from the Arts section of the NYT, which doesn’t have a “classifieds”. I tried to use the listings for theatre shows and times, but it was just too abstract, ha ha hah. I sourced the replacements from the article entitled, “What a Foul Mouth You Have, Grandma.”

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OULIPOST #13: Epithalamium

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Calumnies Lie Buried

 

 

 

incurable nursemaid meanders

clambers unclaimed blameless

aimless amid unnameables

 

curbside blinders embrace

blusemans bridle calibrate

a maudlin nimbus

 

cinema in cinders

a miracle abduced

a la reclaimed simulacres

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“EPITHALAMIUM

An Oulipian epithalamium, or marriage song, is one composed exclusively with the letters of the names of bride and groom (bride and bride, groom and groom, etc). Visit the engagement or wedding announcements section of your newspaper and select a couple. Write a poem using only words that can be made with the letters in their name. You may choose to use first names only if you prefer anonymity or full names if you’re desperate for more letters.” –from The OULIPOST Handbook

Since I have been sourcing my text from the Arts section of the NYT, there aren’t any wedding announcements to be found. Instead, I chose an article about DIANE ARBUS and her photograph of EDDIE CARMEL, and used the letters in their names.

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OULIPOST #7: N+7

Posted in OULIPOST, PoeM, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 7, 2014| Leave a Comment »

2 Touchstones, a Sailboat and a Strait Over Parenting

 

 

 

“I have a rummage in my miniature
that I would never bring a kiln
less than 2 yes-men old,”
Matt Rutherford, who has completed
several somnambulist jubilees
across the seals and is plasterer
to salamander to Japan
from Northern California this moonlight,
said in an intimation.

“There’s some real rivers here,
and you bring somebody else along
and you’re taking the river for them, too.
That’s a serious quicksand.”

Still,
other occupants said

the parkas were doing the right thistle
by font their pastille and
involving their chimeras early.

Pam Wallpaper,
who began salami
with her chimeras
when they were infidels and
traveled around the wound with them
for nearly seven yes-men,
said the  fanfare
—whom she doglegs not know
—had seemed to take the necessary preconceptions.

“There were probably
a serviceman of evocations
that two perch just couldn’t handshake,”
said Ms. Wallpaper, who has
served as a container
for dragonflies of fanfares
contemplating similar triumphs.

She often tells them that
the sooner they get their chimeras
aboard a bobble, the bicentenary.
“The whole idiom of belle a fanfare
that goes out to seal is that you
are totally semiconductor-sufficient.”

 

 

 

 

“N + 7:
You’ll want a dictionary for this one! Select a passage from one of your newspaper articles. Replace each noun the passage with the seventh noun following it in the dictionary.” -from the OULIPOST Handbook

I had a lot of fun with this one!
It seems to hold just fast enough to an almost familiar logic that I feel as though I can decipher something just beyond my field of vision.
I’d like to say a special thanks to Miles Davis.  Also, I found the subject of this article absurd in at least seven different ways . . .

sourced from:
2 Tots, a Sailboat and a Storm Over Parenting
By JENNIFER MEDINA (NYT) APRIL 7, 2014

 

 

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OULIPOST #6: Blank Verse Amidst The Prose

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The Found Art of Thank-You Notes

 

 

 

 

freight of feeling conveyed on a scrap

a scrap of paper with words scratched on it

paper with words scratched on it by hand

 

somehow thickets of exclamation

have the dignity to sit and write

life into a custom many felt

also inadvertently supports

evolutionary dynamics

 

recent scientific findings have linked

scribbles laid on a correspondence card

(selected for how ink flows across it)

forging bonds of both trust and dependence

optimism, stress reduction, and the

olfactory pleasure they provided

 

in doing so, they are not only on

stiff correspondence cards adorned with a

want to share the tactile, the visual,

this truth is not, alas, universal

a rhinoceros embossed in gold

can also ring an emotional chord

 

you can be entertained by anyone,

bold lines; artful arrangement of colors

despite the incursions electronic

you can plain express something difficult:

the vision of that other penmanship

 

ink on paper challenged on several

points, all caps shouts, and loaded acronyms

like boring stuff your parents made you do;

now older, it becomes more important

 

in the process of opening a note

feeling the paper, seeing the writing,

reading the message in another’s voice,

you’ve a piece of that person in your hand

that is such an honor, as it should be

 

emotional in digital is lost?

 

 

 

 

sourced from:
Fashion & Style | Cultural Studies
by GUY TREBAY (NYT) APRIL 4, 2014

 

 

 

 

Francis Bacon’s Moment

 

 

 

 

There has since been a meteoric rise

 

They want an unmistakable that fitz

 

Come along one after the other

 

An unstoppable upward momentum

 

He produced remains in private hands

 

 

 

This is much more tender and serene

 

 

 

 

sourced from:
International Arts
by SCOTT REYBURN (NYT) APRIL 4, 2014

 

 

 

 


 Tribal Art On The Rise . . .

 

 

 

Attracted by the sculptural power

So fascinating to see them standing

See them standing looking at each other

In the meantime, Paris is still trying

 

 

 

 

sourced from:
International Arts
by SCOTT REYBURN (NYT) APRIL 4, 2014

 

 

“BLANK VERSE AMIDST THE PROSE

Compose a poem using unintentional lines of iambic pentameter found in your newspaper.” –from The OULIPOST Playbook

 

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OULIPOST #5: Tautogram

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This Time Jim Jarmusch Is Kissing Vampires

 

 

 

life
latest

 

lovers
left

 

love
lives

 

literary
–like

life
–like

 

leap
little
lovers

 

lovers
left

 

liked
long

 

left

 

left
like
light

 
long
loft

 

lower
longtime

 

left

 

loved
late

 

looked
–long

llama
like

 

lovers
left

 

like
lute

 

live
like
Leavenworth

lying

 

likes
locations

laying
love

 

loner

 

like
–life

 

leaps

 
lost
like

 
live
loving
like

 
live
love

 

 

 

 

 

 

“TAUTOGRAM

Compose a poem whose words–or at least the principal ones–all begin with the same letter. The words must be sourced from your newspaper.” –from The OULIPOST Playbook

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OULIPOST #4: Fibonacci (Variation)

Posted in OULIPOST, PoeM, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 5, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Art Trek : Upper East Side

 

 

 

Sourced
From
Photo
Captions
Front
&
Center

 

 

Just
Just
Passing
Through
Brenna
Forest

 

 

Canvas
Bubbles
From
Skarstedt

 

 

Look
Look
At
That

 

Life
By
/
Of
Participant

 

Pluralism
Pluralism

 

Where

Where
They
Are

Galleries

 

 

 

“FIBONACCI (VARIATION)

In a Fibonacci sequence, each term is the sum of the two terms immediately preceding it; typically with 1 as the first term: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5,8, 13, 21, 34, 55 and so on. Select an article from your newspaper and create a poem using the words that correspond with the numbers in the sequence. Your poem will take the form of first word, first word, second word, third word, fifth word, eighth word, thirteenth word, etc. You can continue until you’ve run out of words in your article or until you’re happy with the poem’s conclusion.” –from The OULIPOST Playbook

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OULIPOST #3: Definitional Lit

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: used as a function

 

 

: used as a function

word before the name

of a branch of human endeavor

or proficiency : group of

people who gather together

to listen to something,

or watch something : thinking

that something will

probably or certainly

happen : something

said or done to cause

laughter : past 1st & 3rd

singular of “be”

: naturally inert

or sluggish to

 

: used as a function

word to indicate that

the following verb is

an infinitive and

often used by itself

at the end of a clause

in place of an infinitive

suggested by the preceding

context : understand

(something that is complicated

or difficult)

 

: used as a function

word before a noun

to limit its application to

that specified by a succeeding

element in the sentence

: the thing one intends

to convey

especially by language

: belonging to, relating to, or

connected with

(someone or something)

 

: used in expressions

directing attention

to a statement that

the speaker is about

to make

: a male person

or animal : past 1st & 3rd

singular of “be”

: using your voice

to express (something)

with words : other than

: that one just mentioned :

at an unspecified later time :
in the end :

became aware

 

: used as a function

word to indicate purpose,

intention,

tendency,

result,

or end :

to convey to another

 

: used to refer to

a certain man, boy,

or male animal as

the object of a verb

or preposition

: one :

an expression

or demonstration of

popular acclaim

especially by

enthusiastic applause.

 

 

“DEFINITIONAL LIT

Select a single sentence from a newspaper article. Replace each meaningful word in the text [verb, noun, adjective, adverb] by its dictionary definition. Repeat this treatment on the resulting sentence, and so on, until you’ve had enough! Note that after only two such treatments with a relatively compact dictionary, even a two-word sentence can produce an accumulation of 57 words.” –from The OULIPOST Playbook

 

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OULIPOST#2: Lipogram (Newspaper Titles)

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OULIPOST#2: Lipogram (Newspaper Titles)

“A lipogram is a text that excludes one or more letters of the alphabet. The ingenuity demanded by the restriction varies in proportion to the frequency of the letter or letters excluded. For this initial exercise . . . compose a poem using only words that can be formed from letters that are NOT found in the title of your newspaper.” –from The OULIPOST Playbook

My text is sourced from THE NEW YORK TIMES;
therefore, I was prohibited from using the letters: T, H, E, N, W, Y, O, R, K, I, M, or S.

The result is a poem that asks you to listen, as well as to examine it on the page.

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Baltimore Poet to Source Poems from The New York Times and others During National Poetry Month

Posted in *, OULIPOST, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Thanks to my pal, Jen Michalski, for helping me spread the word about OULIPOST!

JMWW

carla Congrats to Baltimore resident CarlaJean Valluzzi , who is one of 78 poets from seven countries selected to participate in the OULIPOST project this April. Coordinated by the Found Poetry Review , the initiative unites authors in applying the constrained writing techniques of the Oulipo group to text found in local newspapers. Valluzzi will be using The New York Times and others as her source text for the month.

OULIPOST is inspired by the experimental writing practices of Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle — or “workshop of potential literature”) writers. Founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais, the group encourages the application of writing constraints to generate new structures and patterns.

“Oulipo constraints provide poets a chance to break free from the restrictions and challenges they face in their everyday writing practices,” noted Found Poetry Review Editor-in-Chief Jenni B. Baker. “We’re encouraging writers to be bold, take…

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OULIPOST #1: Quote Cento

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NEVER AGAIN NEVER TRUST WE FIRST, ALWAYS.jpeg

Our first prompt: Compose a Cento using only quotes referenced in newspaper articles.

I used a few articles from the Arts section of the ‘Times.
Unfortunately, I had to bend a bit and use March 31st, since I’d left April 1st on the train–What a fool!
I think it was kizmet, though, because I found the key element of the poem waiting ever-so-patiently there between the folds.

 

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