Special Announcement
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The admins are pleased to announce that this yearpoetree is officially affiliating with the pod_together challenge, and we will be collaborating with the pod_together admins to support and encourage more people to produce and record poetry for Pod Together 2013.
What ispod_together, you might ask?
Open for sign ups June 9 to June 22 on DW, LJ, or tumblr
Pod Together is a transformative works collaboration challenge for writers and podficcers, or in the case of poetry, poets and performers. Poets write poems specifically to be performed, and performers record audio versions of their performances.
If you're thinking this sounds a great deal like spoken word / slam poetry, that is indeed one tradition you could be drawing on! You are not, however, limited to writing in a slam poetry style if you sign up as a poet. Rather, the collaboration element of this challenge is that each poet or group of poets works with one or more partner performers to write a poem or poem series for that specific person or persons to perform. Performers help poets incorporate elements that play to their strengths as performers.
You may sign up as an individual poet or performer, and be matched with someone to work with, or find your own collaborators and sign up as a group. The deadline to sign up one way or another is this Saturday, June 22nd.
As part of supporting and encouraging more people to sign up to write or perform poetry,poetree is hosting a parallel icebreaker week here at the community after signups close (i.e. next week) specifically geared toward helping people of all skill levels warm up their creative juices, get acquainted with the resources poetree has to offer, and get oriented re: the challenges and pleasures unique to creating poetry rather than prose for such a challenge.
The creators of any poetry project successfully completed for Pod Together 2013 will have the option of cross-posting their finished project topoetree. Creators of completed or in-progress projects will also have the option, if they wish, to sign up to host a week at poetree to share their project in more depth with this community; in-progress project creators may find this useful, for example, as a way to get specific excerpts that are proving troublesome workshopped or otherwise get feedback and encouragement from this community.
poetree will also have three 'Climbing the Poet's Tree' challenges open to anyone who signs up for something poetry-related for pod_together; potential prizes include paid Dreamwidth time and original cover art for finished project. See Climbing the Poet's Tree: Challenges #34 - 36 for more details.
ETA: if the word count seems a bit intimidating, why write alone? Comment on this post if you'd like to write poetry for the challenge with one or more other poets.
Last edited 6/22/13 by jjhunter
The admins are pleased to announce that this year
poetree is officially affiliating with the pod_together challenge, and we will be collaborating with the pod_together admins to support and encourage more people to produce and record poetry for Pod Together 2013.What is
pod_together, you might ask?Open for sign ups June 9 to June 22 on DW, LJ, or tumblr
Pod Together is a transformative works collaboration challenge for writers and podficcers, or in the case of poetry, poets and performers. Poets write poems specifically to be performed, and performers record audio versions of their performances.
If you're thinking this sounds a great deal like spoken word / slam poetry, that is indeed one tradition you could be drawing on! You are not, however, limited to writing in a slam poetry style if you sign up as a poet. Rather, the collaboration element of this challenge is that each poet or group of poets works with one or more partner performers to write a poem or poem series for that specific person or persons to perform. Performers help poets incorporate elements that play to their strengths as performers.
You may sign up as an individual poet or performer, and be matched with someone to work with, or find your own collaborators and sign up as a group. The deadline to sign up one way or another is this Saturday, June 22nd.
As part of supporting and encouraging more people to sign up to write or perform poetry,
poetree is hosting a parallel icebreaker week here at the community after signups close (i.e. next week) specifically geared toward helping people of all skill levels warm up their creative juices, get acquainted with the resources poetree has to offer, and get oriented re: the challenges and pleasures unique to creating poetry rather than prose for such a challenge.The creators of any poetry project successfully completed for Pod Together 2013 will have the option of cross-posting their finished project to
poetree. Creators of completed or in-progress projects will also have the option, if they wish, to sign up to host a week at poetree to share their project in more depth with this community; in-progress project creators may find this useful, for example, as a way to get specific excerpts that are proving troublesome workshopped or otherwise get feedback and encouragement from this community.poetree will also have three 'Climbing the Poet's Tree' challenges open to anyone who signs up for something poetry-related for pod_together; potential prizes include paid Dreamwidth time and original cover art for finished project. See Climbing the Poet's Tree: Challenges #34 - 36 for more details.ETA: if the word count seems a bit intimidating, why write alone? Comment on this post if you'd like to write poetry for the challenge with one or more other poets.
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Date: 2013-06-22 11:16 am (UTC)(There will be a *lot* of useful support-and-resources type posts during our parallel icebreaker next week; people who are intimidated by the idea of writing one 1k+ word poem may find it easier to contemplate writing a series of poems that collectively add up to or surpass the minimum word count. This what is serial poetry page by comm member
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