Text Corpse
Exquisite Corpse- a French Surrealist game in which a poem is passed around and participants add the lines with limited knowledge of what was previously written.
Text message- brief communication between two mobile devices.
We will be combining these two things. A prompt will be texted to everyone and then we will build [...]
For Walt Whitman, body-consciousness seemed to propel the poet beyond anything as simple as “interest” in the physiological processes of the body in health. The 1855 versions of “Song of Myself,” “The Sleepers,” and “I Sing the Body Electric” take their very inspiration from the being and workings of the human body. In these [...]
Tilla loola luula loola
Tilla luula loola luula
Tilla loola luula loola
Tilla luula loola luula
—from “Ursonate” by Kurt Schwitters
One thing that seems to distinguish poems from prose is sound. I hope for us to consider the relationship of primal sound to the making of poems. Some questions I [...]
The mind writes what is. —Gertrude Stein
Zuihitisu is a classical Japanese form that looks like prose but sounds like poetry. Zuihitsu has been translated as “following the brush” or “random jottings.” The poet accumulates anecdotes, impressions, overheard conversations, lists, diary entries…. real and imaginary musings. In this way the form mirrors the [...]
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