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Hey everyone! I was hoping to have one last zoom call with you all and read out the selected poems for our official chapbook, but it wasn't meant to be! Below are the selected poems for the chapbook, and I will reach out individually to you all on how you would like me to send you the eBook! Selected poems: Finding Her Way Back Home - C.L.A.S
Know it all - C.L.A.S
Renewed - Lori Carlson
Renewed (Haubun) - Lori Carlson
Where I'd rather be - Mark Stevenson
Grief Comes in Waves - Mark Stevenson
Not Lost But I Do Wander - Genevieve Parker
Calling Yourself Home - Genevieve Parker
Somewhere We Wait - Gallagher Green
Hidden Words - Gallagher Green
Untitled - Heather Hughes
Lone Tree - Heather Hughes
The Teachings Of Land And Water - Michael Cunliffe
Elegy to September - Sara Lando
Fog Catchers - Sara Lando
Ruins of Broughton - NC
Good Grief - NC
Hey everyone! Next Friday is when the official Cove Chapbook comes out and I thought it might be a nice way to wrap everything up with a last zoom call? We could maybe even share the individual books on stream, and read from them too if you like?
Hey folks!
I’m slowly winding down the category and putting them into archive (😭😭😭😭)
I have of course kept the progress, chat room, and resources threads open until October 18th.
We will also have a last farewell meeting for anyone that wishes to meet one last time for the challenge… maybe even show us their chapbook?
Otherwise I am slowly integrating myself back into regular forum life. Would love to see some of you there too, if you fancy it. You all have access to New Members, General Discussion and Poetry Discussion. 🖤🖤🖤
I don't believe I have an elegy in me today, though I did apparently have the first 1-4 lines of 8 attempts haha. If I string them all together with no care about mixed metaphors and other wild inconsistencies... that might be long enough to be a reasonable poem 🫠
That said, I do think I have a decent beginning of something else... but not sure yet how to wrap it up.
Just posted WAY too many poems in the finished poems thread. LOL
Hello lovely poets! As discussed I have added a new thread for progress updates on chapbooks. The official last day of PoCoChapMo is October 18th after that the threads will be archived and that will be the end of our first challenge! 😢
I will also start compiling the official Cove chapbook from tomorrow so do be sure to get your finished submissions in ASAP
If anyone wants to us photos for their book or for the cover, Deposit Photos is a stock image site that is pretty cheap and trusted to have the copyright (some sites will sell you photos they don't have rights to). A lot of authors that do their own cover work use them. Thought I would mention it. P.S. Their search is really bad, and the search filter is worthless, don't even try it.
Here are some of the resources I mentioned in the chat.
CISS - continuous ink supply system. There are also a lot of printers with this built-in (sometimes called "tank printers" or "re-fillable printers), but there are a lot of printers out there you can modify to save money. Do some research and make sure things are compatible. I found this site and know nothing about then, but it gives you an idea of what's out there. http://www.inksystem.com/
This is a free program to read EPUB files on your desktop/laptop, it isn't perfect, but handy for checking things over. https://calibre-ebook.com/
This guy has great videos on everything self-publishing. He does sale programs as well to make things easier, but he tells how to do it without the programs as well. He often post new videos that are up to date with the ever changing KDP.
Keywords: https://youtu.be/vinXgGNxEzk?si=J7brOmtQb_5gVqb4
Categories: https://youtu.be/VqPVvcqQCGk?si=HIS6yNLtBtRYsNJD
This is a video about their free AI book description generator that will also polish up existing descriptions. I haven't really used it, and really should. LOL https://youtu.be/tOxPHuCUw40?si=Z3_frelCM8dz2eg3
It's funny to get an advertising email from Amazon for book you have written (under a pen name)
Hello all! Below is the link to our final check-in of the challenge 😢 and Herb’s Chapbook Meeting Part 2.
7:30pm BST
The Poetry Cove is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: PoCoChapMo Chapbook - Professional
Time: Sep 28, 2024 07:30 PM London
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Meeting ID: 814 0017 7740
Hi folks! For those of you who missed it:
Day 23: prompt: home or arriving at I place that feels right. I will try again in the morning. I know what I want to write, but I can't express it. It's a very personal thing (which is out of form for me) and I think it is causing me to not find the words. I also feel like learning the different forms of poetry are making it hard to get my brain in to free form without it feeling wrong. So I will either try again in the morning, or write something less personal.
Sorry it’s taken nearly a week. So much going on I feel like my head is about to fall off from screwing my neck so much looking in all directions. Does that make sense!? 😂🤪 like if you had blue tac and twisted it enough, it would halve?
Anyway I will upload last Saturdays meeting to our YouTube today for those who couldn’t make it, and I’ll post Saturday’s meeting link with Herb tomorrow! ☺️
I'm starting to feel the time pressure crunch now. I have 12 poems 'complete' but some being short I want to add more for my chapbook to fill in the white space. I deffintally want to spend the next two days on senryu and haiku. I also have 16 poems in half finsihed states. Either in first draft or outline stages. My days are spent looking back at the clock watching that hand tick by now.
Sorry to everyone whose work I didn't read over the past three or so days, I have had a surprising amount going on, and I don't even know what it is that's going on! LOL But, it seems everyday just disappears. I will try to do better. Everyone's work has been so great, and I know that those I haven't read have been just as great.
Again is a terrible word.
When I read it off the page it rhymes with 'maintain'. If I use it in a conversation the 'ai' is ditched for an 'e' and it rhymes with 'when'.
I don't know if this is a New Zealand thing or not but I asked co-workers and they all do it too.
It appears that I will still be writing poems from this challenge well into October, but I am not going to beat myself up over it. After almost 2 years of not writing poems regularly, the mere fact that I have written 7 is a reason to celebrate for me. Plus, I want quality poems, so the quantity isn't as important. Off to fix another pot of coffee and make a grand attempt at another poem this morning. See you all at the Zoom meeting.
good morning folks! Today is the day we finally have our publication talk! I have pasted the link below. 7:30pm BST !
Can’t wait to catch up with you all!
Wanting to get into a regular routine of release and a uniform fashion I made myself a template for my chapbook. One thing I want is images with my chapbooks. In design school I spent much time on collages and looking at band zines from around the city. I like the photocopy look and rustic cut out feel. I was very inspired by Terry Gilliams animation work in The Flying Circus, Using royalty free stock images and photos I take myself I thought I'd try to recapture those days gone of old. Here is a couple examples I threw together for poems I have writen this month. Still a couple weeks to determin if I stick to this 70-80s style of if I tweek.
Hi folks!
I just thought I’d let you know, inspired by your creativity I have used concrete poems as an activity in all my workshops this week! I showed everyone your poems on my phone to give them an idea of what they were aiming for and everyone has been so impressed by your creativity! Bravo, everyone!
What I learned today is that I don't think Etheree's are for me. I tried on a handful of different occasions through the evening to write one, and only once made it to 10 syllables and wasn't happy with what I was writing at all haha. I also at one point was attempting to write one while sitting in a comedy club waiting for the show to start - surprisingly that was the most successful attempt.
I am not saying this just to whine. It was actually fascinating to me how some of the more complex poem form prompts felt like a puzzle I wanted to solve... but this one, just felt like voluntarily banging my head against a wall for no good reason. I also found myself put off by the line lengths not looking as nice as they could, since word length and syllables do not necessarily correspond.
Ok.... Etheree rant over. Also, despite the discovery I don't think I like them, I am glad to have learned they exist haha.
Printed, bound, signed and ready to ship! Look forward going through the process with you all this Saturday!!!!
I am totally ditching writing a limerick today. My brother decided to stop by, and like COVID, doesn't know when it is time to go. So, I lost about four hours of time.
I was going to write the limerick, but after staring at the page for five or ten minutes trying to get into the mindset to write something that is humorous and nonsensical, I gave up. That's not an easy thing for me to get into writing without something leading into it.
So it goes, I will try to catch up with it later.
A couple useful resources I found; Templates will auto fill for layout aid for Villinelle, Sestina, and Pantoum. I myself tend to use blank template sheets in Google Docs but I found this useful this week. The link is for the Villanelle, the others can be found under the drop down at the top under 'Poet's Tools' http://henrycrawfordpoetry.com/Tools/Villanelle
So this Saturday we will have a quick check-in but then we will have our publishing workshop/meeting/thing.
I will be running through DIY chapbooks in the first half, and then Herb will be talking about the more professional and distributed chapbook style 😀
I will share a link for that around Friday most likely!
The check-in section won’t be recorded, but once we move on to the publishing side of things I will record and upload for those who can’t make it. 🙏🖤
7:30pm BST on Zoom.
Deep into sestina land and I am finding it to actually be a fascinating way for me to craft a poem. I have theme, and have my first stanza, and now the rest feels like I am piecing together a puzzle - which I suppose is always true to some degree unless the poem is entirely free verse... but there is something in this that really feels like it will be a satisfying puzzle to (hopefully) complete. Also, it feels way less daunting now that I have actually started.
I am working on my sestina and all I can say is that I truly hope the Provençal troubadour Arnaut Daniel is rotting in hell. WHY Arnaut? Why am I spending my afternoon staring at schemes, looking into Retrogradatio cruciata? 😫
Another week of amazing creativity and you all being completely awesome concludes today!
I have left a link here for tomorrow’s check-in if anybody wants to decompress and hangout for an hour. Once again we will aim for 7:30pm BST ☺️
🙏🖤
The Poetry Cove is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: PoCoChapMo week 2 check-in
Time: Sep 14, 2024 07:30 PM London
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I noticed yesterday evening tomorrow will be Friday the 13th. Maybe that could influence our prompt for tomorrow?
I just had a meeting with Herb to plan our How to Publish presentation and he kindly reminded me it was my day to post a prompt hahaha! Sorry it came late guys, am having a tough time of it the last two days. But I’ve just posted it 🙏🖤
Random story time:
So to give a little background - I didn't particularly write much poetry in high school... though I did have to write a villanelle at least once for class. But for years I have vaguely remembered the gist of or even a few lines from things I wrote way back when. The other day I realized, I probably actually know where that notebook/journal is that I wrote them in... and I did!
It was very funny to re-read the poem with the line that I remember writing so so long ago. Also, as a somewhat crazy coincidence I dated most of the poems and they were mostly written in September of 2000... so, I guess I was due to pick a figurative pen again!
There is also a tiny part of my brain toying with revising or rewriting one or two of the poems a much much younger me wrote.
We had a family emergency on Monday that has kept me from writing. So I am even more behind. I plan on spending the next couple of days and the weekend to 'hopefully' catch up. I do have a few lines for each day's poem, so there's that. I also need to catch up with reading and commenting here. I hope everyone is having fun writing. Hope to engage with you all during the next few days.
My brain is like a well oiled conveyor belt and I’m usually good at keeping on top of things, but if one small thing gets placed on the belt from out of left field… suddenly everything becomes a chaotic mess … so I apologies I’ve been a bit quiet here and slow in getting back to everyone! You’re all absolutely smashing it and making me very proud. Loved the shape poems from yesterday!
Admittedly I haven’t been able to write every day but I am very proud when I do. I seem to have a style developing too. This is fun!
I'm so sad I didn't get to get home in time for the chat last night! Italians and their LONG dinners! 😢
I was hoping to post a poem today ( my sunday) but in case that doesn't happen I thought. I would put an update so you know I am still working within this project. So I have still settled on faith / spirituality: an individuals need for, and capacity for, faith and spirituality rather than any particular path.. However, if I talk about something it usually dries up creativity so I will just focus on the doing. Hope there is another zoom soon
Will there be more than one zoom check-in? Just curious
After today's informal chat I accidentally might've stumbled upon my theme for the chapbook. I had originally gone with not having one and just seeing a little where the wind took me since this is new to me... I'm not saying my current idea for a theme is far off from that though. Tentatively and currently I am thinking my theme may be "Creative Wanderlust" - which both fits well with where I am at creatively at the moment... and it also allows me to cheat a little bit 🙃 because I already set the expectation it could go anywhere...
Damn, I knew it would turn out this way. Anyone else write their best poems in their head before fully coming back to so-called reality/in between consciousness as you’re slowly waking up, or just as you’re falling asleep? You have a poetic monologue, creating your best non-written poetry? I went to bed thinking about day one/(The First Step), maybe it will come back to me throughout the day. I was enjoying my in between space, where I didn’t want to open my eyes to jot down some notes. Stuck on two stories for day four (When Love Transformed a Difficult Situation), day 3/ Abandoned, Unattended house in rural hamlet, I have to rewatch the video I haven’t given that one much thought/not inspired. I have a poem that I did a few months back that gives me a similar sensation. Maybe I may just post that. How do you feel when you lose those epic non-written poems? At least in between states of consciousness, they feel quite majestic 🤍
anyone wh fancies a low maintenance check-in: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84739094221 We will talk about our triumphs this week, and what we have struggled with. As well as any suggestions moving forward.
My mom sent me this video of Joe Walsh talking about writing Life's Been Good and I felt like it is a great way of how so many things a written. You gather little bits of everything in life and stick them where they fit in the story you want to tell. https://youtu.be/NIzyTk1fuf0?si=qLxdspMLGFx9Sj_7
Feeling a lot better about getting words onto the page. No dizzy spells for the last 24 hours, so that has been a huge help. I've now written 4 poems out of the 5 days worth of prompts. Still a bit stuck as what to do with Day 4's prompt because I have a jaded outlook on the concept of love. Love usually comes with conditions, not transformations for me. This is one I may just have to skip.
My niece who is 7 (I think... They grow really fast) wrote this for a poetry contest and sent it to me to ask what I thought since I'm a writer. I thought is was good. What are your thoughts? I will pass them on to her.
Hey you wonderful PoCoChapMoers!
I have been left absolutely speechless by the commitment and poems shown so far! I’m so proud of you all!
I just wondered if folks would be interested in a one week check in this Saturday? (Can you believe we’re almost a week in already!?)
This would be less a meeting and more an opportunity to hangout on zoom and have a chat. Voice our struggles as well as our triumphs… maybe even suggestions moving into week 2. Any thoughts?
I discovered yesterday that David Byrne (the Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker, founding member of the Talking Heads) has a bunch of playlists on Spotify and there's a lot of weird music from all over the world. I actively like to expose myself to things I wouldn't come across by myself and things I don't fully understand or like (in art, music, books, people) so I'll also use the month of September to go through one playlist per day, since they're mostly 2-3 hours long. I'm curious to see how poetry and new music will affect my brain and my work after a month
I just found this yesterday! I wrote my first one today. Really hoping to keep with an every day practice. Thanks for this Adam! Such a gift.
It's really interesting keeping up with this during the week when I spend the better part of the day at a desk working for someone else... in part because this happened to start on a weekend (and a 3 day one at that) here in the US, so I got a couple days of starting my day with creativity rather than spending my evening. That is absolutely not a complaint! It's also funny because I generally am trying to do my writing first and then come engage with the forum, but being all the way on the west coast of the US, I am pretty sure half of you are already getting up (or will soon) for your morning by the time I get here. (also, not a complaint really - just feeling like the west coast american "late" to the intentionally asynchronus chat).
Silly time comments aside, I am really enjoying this process and exploring poetry - both in its more formal elements (I've been on random university pages reading about poetry styles) and just as a way to find new outlets for creative expression.
You know, this has made me remember how much I like forums and HATE Facebook groups. LOL
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly I can fall behind when I have a poem stewing. It's like I cannot move forward with a new poem until I get the basics down on a previous one. So yes, I am still on Day 2's poem and no ideas have formed for Day 3's or today's prompt as a result. I detest making excuses for myself because it feels so phony, but these dizzy spells are leaving me incapacitated for long stretches of the day (and often into the night), and leaves my brain all fuddled. I shan't give up, though. I am determined to persevere through this.
It's 1:40am here, and just finished a long article about writing narrative poetry. Not sure I got much out of it, not sure I will make much of it. But it was much less depressing than the novel research I was doing, which was infants born addicted to drugs. Poetry I don't quite understand seems quite nice in comparison. Sometimes, research for novels really stinks. :( But as they say, the more you know... the more you lose hope in humanity. Okay, I added that bit of truth at the end. LOL
Three days in and I'm just posting my first poem. OMG!
I landed on a theme of Transformation.
I am really proud of all the poets who are engaged in the challenge. I found myself in busy work, so I have neglected my duties here, But I will catch up. Keep writing!
I’m sharing this here expanded to help inspire. We all have our own method of writing, the artistic process from which our words flow. But it can be helpful to learn from others also. So here is how it came to fruition.
Like many things the poem started from a seed. In this case the prompt image of a lone tree in a field.
From that I knew I wanted to go with my heritage from my celtic roots. I grew up being told tales, and have shelves of collected tombs of folklore from around the world. I also knew I wanted a narrative as I had been watching reaction videos to Ren's Tale of Jenny and Screech. So I wrote out my mind dump. Every image, phrase, idea I had for it.
A family on a walk
A little girl
Excited
A grandmothers warning
Don’t go near
The fae live there
The girl watching
as they walk by
She lags behind
Path side flowers
Picking and playing
A look, a flash
Grandmothers words forgot
She approaches
A small woman, inviting smile
Closer, a smile returned
A long frail hand grasps out
A child screams out
A child fades out
A family weeps
Next is the first draft. I knew I wanted the bookends so I wrote those first. I jot it out, short lines for easier edit, I underline words I know I want to change in the final version. Going through my ideas, placing what seems right but not locking in a direction. I keep it open. I wait till after the first draft for rhyme scheme, form, syllabic count, stanza breaks, get rid of ‘the’, punctuation, etc. Once I have my clay on the table then I shape it into final form. And this is that first draft, ready to be moulded.
Your youth make you arrogant
Make you think you know best
So why should your elders
Words should one heed?
Come closer here
ill whisper in your ear
A tale, a lesson
So that you’ll fear
Not every straying
Against what your told
On a warm spring day
Birds chasing bees
Across flowery fields
on gentle breeze of May
A family set forth
On a journey the walk
A stern father so sure
He knows which way to go
A mother sheepish and shy
Nods her head, yes dear
Grandma wise and slow
Leading hand in hand
With the daughter
She leads along in tow.
Strolling past a drystane wall
A wild flower meadow spans
Framed within its heart
Sits alone a hawthorn tree
Dappled in fresh blossom
Arms out stretch out inviting
Offering shade and respite
From immutable heat
little girl bounds forth
Eager to frolic and climb
Grandmas hand find purchase
Upon the girls shoulder
Putting pause to her charge
Careful now wee one
That tree is not for play
Wild fae dwell there
They do not like people
Who draw close
Do not approach near
Come now, ushered on
Their journey continues
Anemone soon distract
The girl slows to pick
A bouquet of pretty purple
Petals to pass to her mother
Warnings fade, words forgot
Her attention uproots
Back to the forbidden
Family up path far along
She goes unnoticed
Creeping to her prize
From thickened shadows
A woman beckons
Toothy smile salient
In viscus dark
Hello young one
A voice sweet and soft
Calls forth the girl
Closer she steps eagerly
At once long spindly fingers
Reach out clutching hold
Shock sets into silent scream
Now you see dear child
Like the girl before
You didn’t listen
Now your family calls out
Never to hold you again
Be a good dear
And climb in this pot
To lift up small ones
Now hurts my back
I am old now, My age is a lot
I grow hungry now
And you will fill that spot And that is my foundation for the 'tree in a field' photo prompt. Now I get to sit down to craft, whittle, and glue what I can to find the face below the surface.
Wish I could say that Day 2's poem has been completed, but alas, it sits, simmering. It hasn't helped that I have been a dizzy dizzy dingbat all day, so trying to focus on writing, or even just words, has been difficult. I am noticing a theme developing - Things Seen and Unseen. Not sure if that will continue for the entire month, but it is an interesting development.
For Sara don't worry about your English. I read an article this morning on Hewett Packard pursing the estate of Mike Lynch and it quoted an English lawyer as saying ' it won't look good optically' when he should have said ' this will be perceived poorly' it is a difficult language
this isn't for the daily prompt but had some fun with black out poetry today (thank you @Adam Gary for suggesting it) because I found a book in the trash. It's a terrible book about the life of Saint Margherita of Cortona that is falling apart. This was FUN
Here's the first one (and the translation)
Notte senza stelle
Sui colli
va facendo giorno
incomincia la vita
Starless night
On the hills
day is breaking
life begins And the second one (and the translation) La morte non la decomposizione
La brezza
ancora
piena d'affetti
senza più timori
protesa
sentiva
le vene trasparenti
sacra
illuminava
lo sguardo
nella penombra
Death not decomposition
The breeze
still
full of affection
no longer fearful
stretched
felt the transparent veins
sacred,
it lit up
the gaze
in the penumbra
This may seem a little abstract. I'm sitting at work, procrastinating, writing, and watching my favorite youtube channel Raccoon Saloon (sorry Adam), and I realised after a year of watching this every day at work I have never writen a poem about a raccoon. A must for me this month. So it begs the question, what animal would you like to one day write a poem about. Not neccerilly your favoirte animal but one that inspires images and words for you?
Howdy all.
Enjoyed writing something again that wasn't add copy of some kind. LOL I feel like this is a great thing to warm me up to start writing on my novel again. I got so busy with having to get some other things done (money making things LOL) that I had to put a hold on my current work in progress.
If I can get my brain to think in the right way (not a big chance of it happening LOL) I would love to try a Tanka. This is because I am a HUGE otaku (anime/manga nerd) and my favorite movie is The Garden of Words, which a Tanak plays a part in (There is also a novel The Garden of Words that is so beautifully written). I don't know if anyone else has watched this, but here is the Tanka that was in the movie, I love this Tanka so much!
Faint clouds of thunder (Man’youshuu 2513; 2514)
Call
Response
The movie translated differently, which I like better. Translating from ancient Japanese to modern English isn't exactly straight forwards. LOL Movie translation:
Call:
A faint clap of thunder,
Clouded skies,
Perhaps rain comes,
If so will you stay here with me?
Response:
A faint clap of thunder,
Even if rain comes or not,
I will stay here,
Together with you.
While I know an hour isn't an exceptionally long time to spend trying to write something, after an hour of trying to write something "more meaningful" and ending up with a few lines I like but no full fledged poem and an eye twitch that told me it was perhaps time to stop, I did write a little limerick just for fun... or maybe a little for that sense of accomplishment of completing something.
Once you know it is time, then please
Sit by yourself among some tall trees
Put paper to pen,
No, reverse that again,
And take the first step of your bright new journeys.
🙃
Hi I am definitely working on poems. At this point I am settling on a theme of faith /spirituality; jy / celebration.
I have drafted a few stanzas, then was tired, so there were words to weave stanzas around. Will post something once I have worked the dough enough.
Rodin agreed with Mark wait for inspiration what's the hurry.
I just installed the mobile app you mentioned on Stream. You are right. This is so much easier on phone to navigate and read. It's like the difference between a fork and a power mixer.
I just wanted to say a huge well done to everyone today. You’ve blown me away! Sara’s first ever poem brought me to tears!
This isn’t to make anyone feel down if you’ve NOT been able to write your first poem today. Without being cheesy, we’re all on the same PoCoChapMo path, but are each on individual journeys… don’t compare, your first poem will come!
Once again, you’ve made me proud today! We go again tomorrow!
Had a late night fathers day D&D game last night. Got home just before midnight and drafted my second for the first day. Not sure it landed with me in the direction it took. This for me I think is one of those "don't look at the new born words for a week" type poem in the hope it finds new life over that period. So this comes from advice that I have picked up from many a source over the years; don't play with it, it might fall off, and like bread over kneading it will ruin the dough. Let it rest and come back later. Not all poems are born perfect and need to find their own way out of the ugly duckling stage.
Thanks for this space, Adam! And a big hello to my fellow poets! I am off to a great start - just finished my first poem thanks to Adam's great prompt. Catharine, my muse, woke me up promptly at 3 am (US Central Time) to see if a prompt had been dropped. I guess she is eager to begin this month-long poetry journey. I hope she and I can keep this momentum going.
2 poems by 2 of our Covers in the bank already!