[New-Poetry] Exercises

[TheOldMole]

This is great.

Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Exercises
>
> 1. Write/read a poem that is torture to both the reader and the
> writer.
>
> 2. Waterboard a sonnet.
>
> 3. Climb on a poem and take it for a spin around the block.
>
> 4. Read the first word of a poem and then every other word
> thereafter. Then read the second word and every other word
> thereafter. How do the two readings differ?
>
> 5. See the poem as a mountain. Plan your ascent to the peak
> and then your descent. Don't forget your oxygen.
>
> 6. View the poem as a hole you're digging. How do you know
> when to stop? How far down do you go? How do you get out
> once you've stopped digging?
>
> 7. Write the poem backwards, and then make it make sense,
> or not.
>
> 8. Imagine the poem to be a city that lies beneath sea-level.
> How do you prevent it's being flooded the next time a
> hurricane comes along?
>
> 9. Imagine the poem as a hurricane.
>
> 10. Put your poem (or someone else's) through basic training.
> Teach it to march. Train it to kill.
>
>
>
>
> Hal
>
> "The problems with computers is that there is
> not enough Africa in them."
> --Brian Eno
>
> Halvard Johnson
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