Climbing the Poet's Tree: Challenges #29 and #30

[poetree_admin]

jjhunter

Congratulations again to primeideal who won Challenge #27, the serial poetry challenge, and ysabetwordsmith who won the reader's challenge.

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For Writers:
Challenge #29: This past week featured collaborative poetry by jjhunter and untonuggan. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to team up with one or more other people to write a collaborative poem of at least ten lines long. You may enter more than one poem, and be part of more than one collaboration.

For Readers:
Challenge #30: Review a published poetry collection or poetry 'zine in your own space. The 'zine or collection in question can be entirely digital, print only, or any combination thereof.

This week's prizes:
Winner of each challenge gets zir choice of 30 dreamwidth points (the equivalent of one month of paid time), or a icon or poem (any format, though some make take more time than others, and on a topic of your choice) by jjhunter.

The winner for each week’s writing challenge will be chosen by a rotating volunteer from the community. (This challenges’s volunteer judge is untonuggan.) The winner for the reader’s challenge will be chosen randomly among all those who successfully complete the challenge. While anyone is welcome to accept and complete either or both challenges, the following people are not eligible for winning: this week’s judge (ineligible for Challenge #29; eligible for Challenge #30); last week’s winners (ineligible for whichever challenge they won last week); the winner of Challenge #29 is ineligible for winning Challenge #30; and the POETREE admins, jjhunter & alee_grrl (ineligible for both challenges). Note that since Challenge #29 is a collaborative challenge, each eligible author of the winning poem will be considered a separate challenge winner, and thus each receive the full prize.


Note that you do not have to be a member of POETREE, or even Dreamwidth for that matter, to participate. When you complete one of the challenges, please comment at this post with links to your poem or comments; if you complete both, please comment separately for each challenge. Deadline for challenge is Friday, February 1st, 2012 at 11:59 EDT. Winners will be announced that Sunday.

Comments

Find Collaborators Here

[poetree_admin]

If you are looking for one or more people to collaborate with on challenge #29, respond to this thread to advertise.

Re: Find Collaborators Here

[cadenzamuse]

I would love to write collaborative poetry! Anyone want to join me?

Re: Find Collaborators Here

[primeideal]

If someone else comes around, go for it, but otherwise I'd be up for it! :)

Re: Find Collaborators Here

[cadenzamuse]

Whoops, I'm so sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. (Sprained my knee and then my elbow in the past week. Ugh.)

YES! Let's write collaborative poetry! Woo! Shall I PM you my email address so we can go back and forth easily? Or is there another format you prefer?

Hmm...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'd forgotten about the reader contest. Was there a prize for that one, or just recognition.

Also, I'm doing a bonus fishbowl in my blog on Tuesday, Jan. 22. The featured series will be Fiorenza the Wisewoman. Folks are invited to drop by then and give me prompts.

Re: Hmm...

[poetree_admin]

There was indeed a prize; I'll resend you the notification PM from November.

[cadenzamuse]

Well, I totally forgot that deadline. Sigh.

As a recap, though, the challenge inspired me to collaborate with untonuggan and prime_ideal.

prime_ideal and I wrote two poems: Seating, a haikai, and Climate Proxy, also a haikai. Props for guessing who started which poem. :)

untonuggan and I also wrote two poems: Wind Shear, a free verse poem, and Singularity, a haikai. We had extra fun with the constraints for these, so props for guessing what they are (and who wrote what).