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poetree is affiliating with the Pod Together Challenge again this year. Stay tuned for another round of related Climbing the Poet's Tree challenges, and sign up now if you're intrigued — today is final day for individual and group signups.

Some things to consider if you're hesitating:

• There's no penalty for dropping out if you need to (this is what pinch-hitters are for), so what do you have to lose if you sign up and see how far you can get by the June 22nd check in?


• The sheer diversity of Yuletide fandoms reminds us that just about anything can be used as inspiration for a transformative work. From television commercials to YouTube videos, from badass women in history to anthropomorphized academia, your imagination's the primary limit.


• If you find that 1k+ word count intimidating regardless of whether you approach it as one poem or many, why work alone? Comment on this post to find one or more collaborators to write poetry with for the challenge. You can divide the word count and multiply your fun.

Resources from previous rounds ofpod_together and pt_lightning:

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jjhunter

Long Poetry, Serial Poetry & Poetry Research

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Poetry as Performance

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If you have other readings to suggest from the POETREE archives or elsewhere, please link to them in the comments!

jjhunter

While this icebreaker is designed for Pod Together 2013 participants, everyone is welcome to play regardless of whether they're signed up for the challenge, let alone involved with a poetry project.
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If you're trying to get at the heart of an idea, there's nothing like articulating it as a haiku to distill it down to its essence. And if you can do it with dissertations, you can do it with anything.

So! Your mini challenge, should you chose to accept it, is to brainstorm in haiku. Got a premise or plot bunny you're considering? Tell us about in haiku. Got more than one? Give each its own haiku. Partway through the project or already done? Tell us the haiku version anyway.

And yes, by all means, cheer each other on when you see something you want to give props to! (And bonus if you do it in haiku.)

Inspired by various Ladies' Big Bang guidelines

ETA: Pod Together 2014 participants, feel free to reuse this post!

If you yourself are involved with a Pod Together 2013 poetry project and would like to request support, read on!

If you would be interesting in acting as a beta for such a project, check out the beta signup post. If you would be interested in acting as a cheerleader for one or more project participants, check out the cheerleader signup post.

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Loosely adapted from the various Ladies' Big Bang guidelines

ETA: Pod Together 2014 participants, feel free to reuse this post!

If you would be interested in acting as a beta for one or more Pod Together 2013 poetry projects, read on!

If you would be interesting in acting as a cheerleader, check out the cheerleader signup post. And if you are interested in requesting beta and/or cheerleader services for your contribution to a Pod Together poetry project, the request support post is the place to go.

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As part of our collaboration with this year's Pod Together challenge, this week POETREE is hosting a parallel two-week icebreaker focusing on 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.

We hope all of you, pod_together participants and the broader poetree community alike, have fun with what we have planned.

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alee_grrl & 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.

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