Tuesday, April 7, 2009

First Game: Cut-Up Poems

The blog has been up for a week, and it's time for a game. Our first game will be creating a Cut-Up Poem. For those who aren't exactly sure, a cut-up poem is one that uses the words from somewhere else and then builds a poem from them.

Our game will come with a twist: your source of words must be the Catalogue of Poems from another writer on here. So I could write a Madden cut-up poem, using whatever words I want, like Penguin and fisherman, from her past poems.

Now don't get ahead of yourself: I'm going to set April 10th as the day when we will all post our cut-up poems. This also gives writers who have only posted once the ability to get another poem or two in before that day. Also, be sure to add in your post whose poems you are cutting up.

Finally, does anyone want to take charge and come up with a game or challenge for the Ides of April? You can post on April 10th or so.

[Administrative Note: remember to add your name as a Label when you post a poem. If you don't know what I mean, just look down through the poem posts, each one has the author's name as a label so we can search by author by clicking on the relevant links on the left hand bar]

2 comments:

  1. Ooo! I want to be the next person to come up with a game. I already have one in mind...so get ready!

    -Madden

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  2. Oh, and to be fair/ give credit where credit is due, We Are Fishermen is based on the lyrics of Jack's songs.

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