A tisket, a tasket, a yellow picnic basket...

[alee_grrl]

Sunday, every Sunday, let's have a community picnic. It's probably been a long week, and it's lovely to have a few minutes to sit back and relax and enjoy some good conversation in a less formal space. Feel free to bring something for the Picnic Basket - a poem you liked this week, a thought you had or something you experienced, or even something completely unrelated to poetry whatsoever that you just feel like sharing. Just take a moment to say hello, and maybe have a bite to eat; no one is going anywhere fast, and the shade promises some relief from the everyday heat. Let’s get to know each other a bit better, here under the branches of the poet’s tree.

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My contributions to the picnic basket this week. :)

[alee_grrl]

One thing that I love this week was jjhunter's How are you? (In Haiku) Event.

It was a fabulous challenge to try to formulate a reply in that format that conveyed enough info to actually answer the question. The many responses are very well done a beautifully written, with jjhunter sometimes writing haiku back. So the play of poetry and community is very nice.

This was the other thing that made me smile today.

[jjhunter]

In my readings this week I stumbled across this cool essay posted in the Symposium Blog by alexjenkins : Fannish Moments in the Poetry Classroom.

new challenges are live

[jjhunter]

Climbing the Poet's Tree: Challenges #3 & 4

Feel free to comment on this thread if you have any questions, comments, observations, lamentations, or exaltations.

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Congratulations are due to last week's winners: ariestess won Challenge #1 with I think Know Your History, and bookblather was the winner of Challenge #2 with this comment. Especial thanks go to bookblather for also being our judge for the first challenge.

weekly roundup - call for contributions

[jjhunter]

If you have anything you'd like added to the 'Associated Posts by Members Off-Comm' section or the 'General Poetry News' section, please leave a comment here on this thread or send me a PM or email (jjhunter24 at gmail) by 5PM EST today, Sun. March 25th.

[untonuggan]

I have nothing particularly special to say, just that I enjoyed wallowing in all the comments and poetree/poetry this week!

[lilmoka]

I adored ariestess posts, they were really interesting <3

I didn't participate a lot in the comm activities, but I hope I'll be able to write an Etheree for the weekly challenge :)

[bookblather]

I just stumbled onto the concept of found poetry. I'm off to try my hand at it now, and I was wondering if anyone here has ever read or written found poetry before? What do you think of it as a concept?