like bookcrossing.com but for poetry, esp small press stuff. you leave a chapbook, someone picks it up and leaves one for someone else. getting poetry into the hands of those who want to read it. for bookcrossing.com, the books are all registered with numbers etc. it could be like that or less organized.
people with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) are advised to find ways to be in the light. as someone who gets blue when having to put up with constant sunshine and blue sky, i would love it if there were a place, a room or something that simulates storms, rain, clouds etc. i’d also love winter rooms. summer might be a bit more bearable for those of us who suffer from this rainy version of SAD. i don’t know if there is anyone else that loathes the sun & bluesky as much as i do. perhaps not. i’m also much more creative in rainy, stormy weather or in winter than i am in summer where my brain turns to mush in the horrible heat.
A series of photos and essays based around the notion of what would you take from your burning house if you had one trip in, by yourself (so limited to what you could carry), and all the animals and family members were already safe. I picture portraits of the people with the goods they’d carry, accompanied by interviews that attempt to explore why the items they went back for have so much significance for them.
A series of photographs that are portraits of people holding placards which they’ve hand-lettered with the worst criticism or insult ever leveled against them.
i know these already exist, i’ve heard of them but have never been part of any group that has exchanged them. the idea is to make cards, much like baseball or hockey cards, except for poetry or other art forms and then trade them. i’d love to give out and receive them. any links to such would be very welcome or if you do them already.
When I was looking at colleges to attend I toured the Northwestern campus–it’s a HUGE university. The guy who was giving the tour used to work in Housing. He told us that the folks in Housing like to have their fun. He said that this year they put a Paul McCartney in the same room with a John Lennon, and, that the previous year they’d put four John Smiths in the same room.
I always thought that’d be a great one act play. Four guys named John Smith who live together in the same dorm room.
A play with a very large cast, like, say, Merry Wives of Windsor, performed in a venue with a very small stage, like a coffee shop’s open mic stage.
A way for Amazon.com to help put the Kindle in people’s hands so that they can get a hands-on test drive and possibly learn to love it: make the devices available to upscale restaurants at or below cost with a limited-functionality block such that they only load the current menu file off of the restaurant’s server–or, better, restaurants upload current menu to the Amazon server which pushes to the device. This way restaurants can have always-current menus put in front of customers with no printing costs or problems and Amazon can sell a region-specific browse the menu service that is constantly kept current by the restaurants.
In the future, computers have adavnced to the point of realizing artificial intelligence. The only programming language they respond to is poetry.
Forgive me if this is an existing mode of writing that I am unfamiliar with.
A Progressive/ Collaborative Literary Work would be developed by a group of writers. A subject would be agreed upon (or it could be looser depending on the intended outcome) and then the participants established. The first person would begin the work. Perhaps each person could write a chapter of a book for example.
After the worked was deemed complete (the last person added their part), the first person would make edits, then sequentially each contributor would make edits. The process could be repeated or changed as desired until the group agreed that the work was ready to be considered for publishing.
I think some key factors to the project’s success would be:
-Choose the group carefully (make sure you can work well with the group members and admire the quality of their work)
-Establish and stick to deadlines
-It will be what it will, you can’t control the outcome, it may take a while to get a rhythm going between the group members
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