Special Announcement
Jun. 17th, 2013 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poetree_adminalee_grrl & jjhunter
The admins are pleased to announce that this year![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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 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 will be hosting a parallel icebreaker week, offering opportunities for poetry project creators to share their work at this community, and running three related 'Climbing the Poet's Tree' challenges with prizes open to anyone who signs up for something poetry-related for pod_together )
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 will be hosting a parallel icebreaker week, offering opportunities for poetry project creators to share their work at this community, and running three related 'Climbing the Poet's Tree' challenges with prizes open to anyone who signs up for something poetry-related for pod_together )
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
