[New-Poetry] Spurring new poems

[Anny Ballardini]

Oh well, what is death in front of Poetry, Tad?
(I am quite distant, this is a sure fact, :-)

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:45 PM, <tad at opus40.org> wrote:

> Anny -- uh-oh, looks like David is going to have to kill you.
>
> But at least you did a wonderful job.
>
> Tad Richards
> www.opus40.org/tadrichards
>
> On Mon 15/09/08 1:38 PM , "Anny Ballardini" anny.ballardini at gmail.comsent:
>
> Deposit Used Flags Here
>
> deposit firearms here
> deposit tears here
> deposit soldiers here
> deposit poets here
> deposit Xmas trees here
> deposit junk food here
> deposit the smoke of cigarettes here
> deposit students & alumni here
> deposit families :& amyls here
> deposit death here
> deposit hurricanes and spikes here
> deposit Dostoevsky here
> and Tarkovsky and Dante here
> as much a Plutarch and some Petrarchs
> deposit your soul here
> deposit your tel. calls _northern and southern calls _nocturnal calls _Nike
> here
> deposit the white rocking chair with pipe (ce n'est pas une pipe)
> deposit Bob Dylan here
> deposit hibiscus tea here
> deposit your hands here
> deposit your faith and liver tongue here in the lounge
> deposit your deposit here
> deposit Charon here
> deposit Hades and Hell here
> deposit your sky here
> :& your skylark & your shotgun
> deposit your shares here
> with your life and loss here
> deposit your meteorite here
> deposit and deposit just a depot for the
> de/pos/it
>
>
> pOm written after the not yet existing homonymous poem by David Graham
>
> :-)
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 6:18 PM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:
>
>>  I'm not much for Tarot cards, Ouija boards, or Cage-like aleatory
>> methods, but I am very fond of dumb exercises of my own.  In my daily
>> journal scribblings I'll often just give myself some ridiculous task, such
>> as writing a page of description & narrative without any verbs, and off I
>> go.  Usually the result is junk, but most of what I write is junk anyway.
>>  Might as well have some fun.
>>
>> When I think of it, the most common trigger for me is probably a phrase
>> that floats into my mind--captured out of thin air sometimes, but often
>> enough glimpsed on my travels.  Last year I saw a box outside the local
>> American Legion hall with a sign that said "Deposit Used Flags Here."  That
>> will very likely be the title of a poem some day. . . .
>>
>> If you write that poem before I do I'll have to kill you.
>>
>>
>> --------------
>> On 9/15/08 8:57 AM, "tad at opus40.org" <tad at opus40.org> wrote:
>>
>> Both Donald Justice and James Merrill have done similar things.
>>
>> I'm wondering what else we use to spur new poems.
>>
>> Here's an essay by a friend on the subject:
>>
>> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/collage.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Tad Richards
>> www.opus40.org/tadrichards
>>
>> On Mon 15/09/08  9:46 AM , "Suzanne Burns" atelierjewelweed at gmail.comsent:
>>
>> Sounds awfully good! I look forward to reading this:
>>
>>
>> http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-linda-gregg14-2008sep14,0,3281527.story
>>
>> I rather like the idea about using tarot cards to spur new poems-- Jack
>> Spicer used to suggest that in his Magic Workshop as I recall.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Suzanne
>>
>>
>>
>> ====================================================
>> David Graham
>> grahamd at ripon.edu
>> Home Page:
>> http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/About%20Me.html
>>
>> Poetry Library:
>> http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/DGPoLibrary.html
>> ====================================================
>>
>>
>>
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