Shanna's #20

Hiatus, or
run for it

but do it soon.

A trickle list.
A tenderness of intention.
A soft little way.

Jacked up
or not, the difference
inimitable & kinda sad.

A concrete something
like a lead pipe.
To contrast with another vision,
a treetop full of wind.

Shanna's #20-30...

...will continue to appear hear as they are completed, just for thoroughness.

I've been sick all week, unable to muster the final sprint I needed, alas. But even 20 in 30 days ain't bad, considering all the travel and craziness of this particular April! Even if I won't keep most of them. (That's normal.)

Maureen asks fellow players what, if anything, you noticed about your writing during the experiment? (And her "leaves & feelings" poems were lovely, by the way!)

Jen's #29

[Vanishes...]

Jen's #28

[A poem were here...but I ated it]

Shanna's #19

[Expired.]

Shanna's #18

[Expired]

Jen's #27

[o you kid...]

Jen's #26

[Hay Pome Vuz Hear Hear!]

Shanna's #15-17

[Expired]

Jen's #25

[A Pome War Har]

Jen's #24

[A Poem was Here]

Jen's #23

[A Poem was Here]

Jen's #22

[A Poem was Here]

Jen's #21

[A Poem Was Here]

Jen's #20

[A Poem was Here]

Shanna's #12

[Expired]

Jen's #19

[A Poem was Here]

Jen's #18

[A Poem was Here]

Jen's #17

[A Poem was Here]

Jen's #15

[A Poem for Pop was Here]

Danielle's #something gone

Dear Neighbor, Hiss. Hiss hiss. Sincerely, Kitty.

Jen's #14

[A Poem was Here]

Jen's #13

[A poem was here]

Shanna's #11

[Expired]

Shanna's #10

[Expired]

Shanna's #9

[Expired]

Shanna's #8

[Expired]

Jen's #12

[A poem was here]

Shanna's #7

[Expired]

Jen's #11

[A poem was here]

Jen's #10

[A poem was here]

Jen's #9

[A poem was here]

Shanna's for April 6

[Expired]

Jen's #8

[A (Long) Poem (Containing the Phrase "Banana Bedwetters") Was Here]

Jen's #7

[A Poem Was Here]

Shanna's for April 5

[Expired]

Shanna's for April 4

[Expired]

jen's # Kansas

More Illinois

I will go on
tomorrow
for this is a
many parted but
ohso for real
IMPORTANT
and I really I
mean that no
shit poem: let's
take over the
midwest west
of Kansas witch
is still cheap e-
nough but even
better and create
an america.

April Something gone

betters. Bitters.

Jen's #5

[A (Dumb) Poem was Here]

Shanna's for April 3

[Expired]

Danielle's April 3 gone!

They shall make you suck it.

Jen's #4

[A Poem Was Here]

Danielle's is playing catchup...

...over at her blog, Iron Caisson.

For April 2

***

Stopped at Woodland Pattern yesterday morning to see Chuck & Carl and invited them to record some poems for the blog. The store is amazing--I saw many of YOUR BOOKS displayed beautifully in the front room, rifled through drawer after drawer of chapbooks and broadsides, browsed an ALPHABETIZED and MASSIVE chapbook rack in the back room, and walked up and down a WALL OF POETRY until I finally just became overwhelmed trying to process it all. We both came away with some new stuff, of course, which will hardly fit in our already bulging luggage.

We got into Chicago yesterday afternoon (after stopping for cheese & thrift shopping in Kenosha; I scored a Dr. Pepper tee shirt) and had a GREAT reading last night at the Fixx Series with Amy Guth. Brandi & Becca from Switchback Books, Daniel Borzutzky, some of Danielle's students from Columbia College, some lovely laughing (thank you!) ladies at the front table, and a gentleman who never looked up from his work but smiled and reacted nonetheless, along with many other good people, and Adam and Hazel of course. 19 books sold--woohoo!

Today we're off to Normal-Bloomington or Bloomington-Normal, however it goes. We'll meet Didi and Gabe for dinner, then maybe go to the slam. Our reading for the conference is tomorrow morning early. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to catch up with NaPoWriMo too. I don't know how Jen manages to write a poem in the chaos of suitcases and borrowed pillows, but I'm having trouble, especially since I've had little time to read or ruminate--which is perhaps to say, we've been having too much fun.

--Shanna

Jen's #3

[A Poem Was Here]

Shanna's for April 2

[Expired]

Jen's #2

[A Poem Once Was Here]

Jennifer's for April 1

[A Poem Once Was Here]

Shanna's for April 1

[Expired]