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Aditi

April: Chapbooks and Poetic Responses

Journal Entry: Tue Apr 1, 2008, 12:19 AM

_{And that means we're writing poetry... lots of it. This should help anyone who is completely unfamiliar with (National) Poetry Writing Month. On dA, we have a slightly different spin on things, but not very different.

Activities planned:
Weekly Contests
The Mini Chapbook Contest
Write a poem a day

News articles:
April: Chapbooks and Poetic Responses (Contests)}

_{Write a poem in response to a piece of published prose writing. The prose can be non-fiction or fiction.

Post your poem as a NEW scrap or deviation.
Mention the prose piece that you are responding to in the artists comments (link not necessary).
Send me a link to the poem in a note titled "POETIC RESPONSE".
You don't -have- to register for other activities to write for the weekly contests. As long as your poem is written in April, I'll accept it.

Entries so far:
ever after by ~beautyisinthedark
Atonement of Intention by ~bekkia
Woman in the Dunes by *GaioumonBatou
Dancing with Russe by ~isabellakay
The Bible by *lbchef
Enduring Love by ~methylated-spirit
Invisibility by ~missmissa07
The Man Who Laughs by ~orphicfiddler
Change by ~Paul-Cooper
Leaving Behind by `PinkyMcCoversong
Clarisse McClellan by ~Professor-Kirby
"To define is to limit" by ~Sakanoue
Linguistics and Love by *seriouspolitics
Tar by *ThornyEnglishRose
Amaroo by ~weaselwoman-sophie
Don't Reject Him by ~Zukoscute2

Deadline: midnight April 7 (GMT)

Prizes: Two 3-month subs or one 6-month sub (up to the judge) and a journal feature from ^lovetodeviate

Judge: `PoeticWar}

_{One of my favourite pastimes involves playing around with my poetry, arranging them in sequence, dreaming about how it would if I had a collection published...

So I thought it would be fun to have a mini chapbook contest. Not only is it fun, it also "will be good training for everyone in thinking of how their poems can relate to each other and build up into something greater than the sum of their parts," as the contest judge said. This should be good practice for anyone with plans to arrange a chapbook or full-fledged poetry collection in the future.
Prizes: $50 and $25 deviantDOLLARS, and best of all, the top two mini chapbooks will get published online in the roundtable review
Judge: Editor of the roundtable review, ~jack-cade
After all the weekly contests, you will have an extra week to organise a mini chapbook. You can start preparing beforehand by thinking of a theme or concept, and also by registering to write a poem a day (details above). I will open this contest after week 2, when you will have written about 14 poems, but it's best to wait until the end of the month.
The mini chapbook must have a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 poems, all from your individual April poetry collections. (This is where making a journal of all your April poems will come in handy for the judges and you.)
You may edit and revise your poems using the Literature Workshop or any of the critique clubs on deviantART. The more revision, the better.
Details about submission and judging criteria will come later.

Register to write a poem a day
_{Reply to this journal with a yes or note me and I will add you to my journal list. The subject line should be "REGISTER".
Write a poem a day and try to post them as a scrap or deviation. You can be late, sure, but at the end of April you should have 30 poems posted.
This is not necessary, but it would be great if you kept a journal with links to the poems you wrote in April for reference.

Join in whenever you feel up to it.

The following wonderful people are writing for Poetry Writing Month:

Head Count: 72}

Other great stuff
_{GD initiatives: Where are the Writers?
Contests: The Mini Crit Contest | MIMESIS Digital Chapbook Initiative: Competition! | Funny Poetry Competition | The Betterment For Humanity Contest | Haikudoing!?! What is this? A CONTEST! | Ahoy! Winners for the March Limerick Contest!
Projects: April - Tanka Month! | Applause for April! | Poets Helping Poets | Poetry Feature 56 | Love Poetry? Find Your Place. | Let's not forget prose, especially because *WordCount has done a fantastic job of bringing yet another feature out: Great Prose Exposed: WordCount Feature #9.
Forum threads: April is the cruelist month Can you write the worst poem ever written? | What Poems Made You Get Into Writing? | Ending a poem with a rhetorical question-
Publishing: Poets: New poetry magazine seeks submissions | Semaphore Magazine}

Aditi's April Poems
_{April 1: Mani, the construction worker | April 2: The song that I came to sing | April 3: A book, late at night | April 4: Once I woke up at dawn. | April 5: Iris and the sun | April 6: Season Haiku, For Govind | April 7: Dear Ragini}}

_{Thank you =bewarecalamity for this journal. Edit Entry}

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`GeneratingHype

Apr 1, 2008, 2:53:00 AM

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`GeneratingHype

Apr 1, 2008, 2:53:23 AM

P.S. I like your new CSS. Very sleek.

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`lovetodeviate

Apr 1, 2008, 5:54:34 AM

Yes, I think I saw their names in the writeoff journal, but will they mind me adding their names here?

(And thanks! It's the work of Ms =bewarecalamity.)

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*AngelofGod87

Apr 1, 2008, 12:30:22 PM

Aditi... I could try that poem a day thing... I mean ...it"d be a nice challege for me

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~Clippers0507

Apr 1, 2008, 7:25:59 PM

Oh, I remember what I wanted to ask. Regarding the Mini Chapbook... when we eventually do it, is it basically gonna be just whatever choices we want, the links to them and then submitting that? And whoever wins that, their order and choices will show up in that journal feature thingie?

Just wondering.

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=whitecrowaa

Apr 1, 2008, 7:44:22 PM

Yes please! I'll write a poem a day. I could use the excersize.

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`lovetodeviate

Apr 1, 2008, 10:44:10 PM

Yes, something like that. I will clear up the submission details in a couple of weeks. The top two collections will appear in the roundtable review. It's a lovely mag. I had a few poems in there a while ago.

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Apr 1, 2008, 11:02:23 PM

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Apr 1, 2008, 11:06:56 PM

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Books read/re-read in 2009 (in alphabetical order of author)

My rating system

Must read!
OK/Good
Never again
Er

= Recently read

Novels/novellas

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe, 1958

She - Anonymous, 1975

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen, 1811

Crash - JG Ballard, 1973

Running Wild - JG Ballard, 1988

Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles, 1943

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866, translated from the Russian by David McDuff

The Trial - Franz Kafka, 1925

A Life Transparent - Todd Keisling, 2007

Fly Away Peter - David Malouf, 1982

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami, 2002, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel

The Key - Junichirō Tanizaki, 1956, translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, 1973

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde, 1891

Graphic novels/comics

Short story collections

Herotica 2 - edited by Susie Bright and Joani Blank, 1991

Herotica 3 - edited by Susie Bright, 1994

The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica Vol 7 - edited by Maxim Jakubowski, 2008

Children's fiction

Stories from Ladakh - Kusum Kapur, 1994

Poetry anthologies

The Forward book of poetry 1995

Poetry collections

Women in Dutch Painting - Eunice de Souza, 1988

The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems - Michael Ondaatje, 1989

The Eyes - Don Paterson, 1999

The Lunar Visitations - Sudeep Sen, 1990

Plays

Non-fiction

Madness and Civilisation - Michel Foucault, 1961, translated from the French by Richard Howard

How Poetry Works - Phil Roberts, 2000

Miscelleneous

Movies watched/watched again in 2009

Full list here

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