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Poets' Notebooks

I found this meme at chanticleer and Big Window -- Eduardo says:

Every poet I know carries around a notebook to jot down ideas, images, bits of interesting data. I've always wanted to take a peek inside another poet's notebook. So I'm asking other bloggers to post a page from their notebooks on their blogs.

Here is this poet's notebook, the most recent pages and a shot of the cover, with the stick I was trying to draw:

   

You can see the poem that came out of these jottings here.

Eduardo has a long list of poets who have posted either pictures or out- takes of their notebooks -- he is overwhelmed with the html to link them all, and I've nothing better to do and an easy interface, so I shall do it here:

Therapist With A Dream Inside
Avoiding the Muse
Sea-Camel
Barbara Jane's New Blog
the world a letter
Almost I rushed from home to tell you this
beautiful monsters
JewishyIrishy
Ivy  [Hi Ivy!]
Box of Birds
Radish King  [Hi Rebecca!]
*~gila monster~*
Ironic points of light
the wendy house
Pugnacious Pinoy
litwindowpane
The World According to Ess
Whimsy Speaks
Quoi?
Book of Kells
Kutibeng
early hours of sky
vowel movements
Small Branches Poetry
Awake at Dawn on Someone's Couch
one good bumblebee
écritures bleues

If I have missed anyone, and as there are additions, please let me know and I'll add them to the list. This was a great idea!

Monday, 10 January:  I am adding Bookworm -- a nice meditation on paper writing and notebooks, independent of the meme.  And another addition below -- keep telling me, and I'll keep adding:

Humanyms
Scoplaw

Hopscotch

Found at Via Negativa, a challenge from Elck to tell a story in one sentence, without commas. Some of my favorites have participated in this so far:  frizzylogic, Laughing ~ Knees,  Nomen est Numen, Velveteen Rabbi, and Natalie of Blaugustine. 

I have a poem that is all one sentence, but has line and stanza breaks -- is this cheating, I wonder?  This is one of my earliest poems, and is not very 'sophisticated.'  I'm putting it below the fold, as it is stretches out long.

Time Wasting

Then again, instead of being a poet-pundit, perhaps I'll just while away a few hours making fantasy heroines  in absurd costumes, with their winged-cat companions.  This was done at HeroMachine, via What The Hell Am I Doing Here?

What's On My Wall

Where I Used to Live, Bill C. Ray

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Bacon, Cheese and Oatcakes, following Terreus' lead, asks what favourite work of art you have in the most prominent place in your home?

This is my favorite piece, and it's placed prominently, for me, at the foot of my bed.  It's the first thing I see in the morning, and the last thing at night.  The title is true:  this is a painting of magnificent, rainy, Southeast Alaska. I have another from this series, Spill, which hangs above the piano in the living room.

When I was a part of the working world, I indulged my yearning for art liberally, and my house is filled with it.  It nourishes me every day.

Add Your Blog!

OK, folks, help me out here -- do this.  Shake up the blogoshere.  Make po-blogs "influential."  Prove that women's blogs are "influential."

& I am working on a poem.  Really.  I promise. 

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Nationwide "Computer Ate My Vote" Day of Action

Time Wasting

Make your own portrait icon.  I did a Good Day icon and a Bad Day icon.  They both sort of look like me.  Maybe. Can you tell which is which?   

   

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