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Last year in November, Rachel Long’s poem, His Bottom Lip was published in The London Magazine. Follow the link to read the poem and support her work.
Whowhatvanished - Weekly Writing Exercise
Write into a room or space that you lost someone, lost a feeling for someone or in which someone lost you, made you discard something of yourself. Think of age and the things you know at the time. Does the room change or shift, sit with the event for a while? Can you go back there and not enter the context again? Do you carry this room with you into other rooms and with it, the context? This is a free write exercise, allow yourself 20 minutes. The edit: - try to peel away lines from the location and build a new room with these lines. - find the sense and direction of the free write and remove yourself as an owner of the room, see what this changes. - change perspective; lead the voice of the edited poem in 1st, 2nd or 3rd person, see what this changes. This picture prompt is taken from The Leftovers Season 2 opening credits, HBO.
A Silence Carry You Can Carry by Hibaq Osman
Contributor to BAR Hibaq Osman was published towards the end of last year by Out-Spoken Press. Here’s the write up: A Silence You Can Carry stands as a searing debut collection from a startlingly brave new talent. The delicate and almost effortless poetry of Hibaq Osman blends everyday objects and movements into monumental invocations. The collection is filled with beautifully woven observations that are centered on love and loss, family relationships, identity and womanhood. You can get yourself a copy here, as well as peruse other fine things made by Out-Spoken Press: http://www.outspokenldn.com/outspokenpress/
Here’s Caleb Femi bringing his work to the 2015 Roundhouse Poetry Slam, in which he became the winner. Watch ‘Children Of The ‘Narm’’ to see why. Caleb will be featuring at Burn After Reading Presents on January 11th at Seven Dials Club, 7.45pm, £5
Curated and hosted by Harriet Creelman and Lewis Buxton
The Common Room Animation Project is a collaboration between 13 animators, based on Talia Randall's spoken-word poem 'Common Room'. Each of the animators chose a segment of the poem that inspired them the most, and brought their own unique style, technique and interpretation to the poem. Talia will be featuring at Burn After Reading on January 11th at Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden. 7.45pm, £5 Curated and hosted by Harriet Creelman and Lewis Buxton for BARPo
Burn After Reading Presents... Talia Randall and Caleb Femi, 11th January
We’re back. New year, new opportunities for your mind to be blown.. along with ours.. you know, we only book acts who are capable of surprising ourselves... We're back and raring to go on MONDAY 11th JANUARY at the Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden. And, even better, to kick off the year, alongside delectable BAR Poets, we have TALIA RANDALL and CALEB FEMI joining us for the evening. Come down to hear some of the best poets writing in London share their words. TALIA RANDALL’s work is about speaking the unspeakable and capturing moments that we all share but find difficult to communicate. Driven by collaboration and play Talia is constantly growing her practice, exploring new art forms and ways of communicating with audiences. You can find out more about her work here: http://www.taliarandall.com/ CALEB FEMI describes himself as a poet, teacher, mosh pit organiser. He was the Roundhouse Poetry Slam Champion 2015 and he’s part of SXWKS, a creative collective, comprising of photographers, illustrators, videographers, musicians, poets and rappers. You can find out more about their collective work here: http://www.sxwks.com/ Doors at 7.45pm, 8pm start. Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden £5 on the door Hosted by Harriet Creelman and Lewis Buxton
Burn After Reading Presents... Caroline Bird and James Bran, 2nd November
We're putting the winter mittens on and getting out the sparklers for another night of Burn After Reading poetry... This November, alonside the BAR Poets, we will have the delightful CAROLINE BIRD with us: Caroline is a muli-award winning poet, with four collections from Carcanet under her belt, alongside a series of exciting projects. You can see all about her here: http://www.carolinebird.co.uk/ and JAMES BRAN! Highly creative and refreshingly different, James is a stand-up, comic poet and MC. Having honed his craft through residencies, he's now making a splash on the circuit at large and attracting considerable critical acclaim: "★★★★" - Broadway Baby "A hard act to follow ★★★★" - ThreeWeeks "Guaranteed to have you in stitches" - The U-Review. @ajamesbran and BAR Poets Will Tyas, Safi Strand, Cameron Bray, Emily Harrison, Tyrone Lewis. See you there! Burn After Reading Presents 7 Dials Club, Covent Garden Monday 2nd November 7.45pm, £5 on the door Hosted by Harriet Creelman and Lewis Buxton
BARPo Audio Anthology: Sexology
In July, BAR poets were commissioned to write poems inspired by The Wellcome Collection’s Sexology exhibition. The poems were recorded and are hosted here, for your naked listening, by Spread The Word: http://www.spreadtheword.org.uk/resources/view/burn-after-reading-collective-present-sexology
The poems and poets featured are: LuckyGirl95 by Harriet Creelman The Girl Who Could Do the Most Sit-ups by Rachel Long I Don't Get What You See in Me by Cameron Bray Total Eclipse by Carmina Masoliver Liminal by Victoria-Anne Bulley Becoming Alone With The Men In My Family by Antosh Wojcik Sunset on the Beach by Katie Byford Performances of Masculinity by Belinda Zhawi
In association with Sex in the Afternoon, an afternoon of poets exploring the use of sex in their poetry and prose, Burn After Reading present a series of specially written poems responding to themes around sex. Inspired by The Wellcome Collection’s Sexology exhibition the poems were recorded and are now hosted here, for your naked listening, by Spread The Word: http://www.spreadtheword.org.uk/resources/view/burn-after-reading-collective-present-sexology
The poems and poets featured are: LuckyGirl95 by Harriet Creelman The Girl Who Could Do the Most Sit-ups by Rachel Long I Don't Get What You See in Me by Cameron Bray Total Eclipse by Carmina Masoliver Liminal by Victoria-Anne Bulley Becoming Alone With The Men In My Family by Antosh Wojcik Sunset on the Beach by Katie Byford Performances of Masculinity by Belinda Zhawi
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.
Octavia E. Butler, “Furor Scribendi” in Bloodchild and Other Stories (via wordswilling)
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Illustration from “Wake” from Tales from Outer Suburbia
Write and interaction between these two characters, or find another animal or setting you want to dialogue with.
Artwork from Shaun Tan’s Tales From Outer Suburbia.
I feel that often the form or shape of a poem parallels an improvised moment. And one finds oneself relating to the white space of the page as if it were a canvas. We are indeed sensitive to and thoughtful of a poem’s visual attitude. And a poem’s shape has much to do with its rhythm.
Yusef Komunyakaa, interviewed by Dana Isokawa for Washington Square (via bostonpoetryslam)
The Intrepid Potash Mine in Moab, Utah, USA produces muriate of potash, a potassium-containing salt used widely by farmers in fertilizer. The salt is pumped to the surface from underground deposits and dried in massive solar ponds that vibrantly extend across the landscape. As the water evaporates over the course of 300 days, the salts crystallize out. So why are you seeing such vibrant colors? The water is dyed bright blue to reduce the amount of time it takes for the potash to crystallize; darker water absorbs more sunlight and heat.
Evaporation ponds of Intrepid Potash Mine Moab, Utah, USA 38°29’0.16″N 109°40’52.80″W www.dailyoverview.nyc
Write a poem for a stranger or wanderer you pass in your suburbia, your cityscape, your landscape, your dreamscape. This artwork is by Shaun Tan, taken from his collection of drawings and stories, Tales From Outer Suburbia.
Locate yourself in the city, work out your symmetry, write about who you might meet and where you can go. Would you leave?
Radiating streets surround the Plaza Del Ejecutivo in the Venustiano Carranza district of Mexico City, Mexico.
Plaza Del Ejecutivo Mexico City, Mexico 19.420511533°, -99.088087122° www.dailyoverview.nyc
