The Word Bank to End All Word Banks: A Writing Tool
My default process for generating draft poems involves a custom word bank in a spreadsheet with a random function. You can make one too.
Objects, Feelings, Thoughts: Lessons from Chinese Poetics
Personal takeaways from my reading of “Pearl from the Dragon’s Mouth,” a book that explores the role of ‘feeling’ and ‘scene’ in Chinese poetics.
Do we need another litmag? Guess I’ll find out.
I’m launching a litmag in November 2021. Here’s why …
Transitions in Prosimetrum: Help with Writing Hybrid Prose-Poetry
How do you transition from prose to verse in hybrid works? I’m collecting examples, so as to have some models and maybe a typology.
Poetry and the Spiritual Labyrinth (Geistlicher Irrgarten)
Here’s a poetry project inspired by spiritual labyrinths, concrete poetry, Oulipo and aleatory writing, neurology and other areas.
An Exercise in ‘Movement’ Inspired by Mathias Svalina’s “Waistoid”
This is a writing exercise meant to help you experience a sense of ‘momentum’ and ‘movement’.
Making Fun of Poets in El Buscón (The Swindler)
El Buscón is a funny, inventive book, with one of the greatest takedowns of poets I’ve ever read.
Travel Writing, Poetry & the Uta Makura
Thoughts about poetry and travel writing, prompted by the book, “Musashino in Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature 1860-1912.”
Poetry Mode – Back Again in a New Form
Poetry mode is a blog by Andy Brown. It started as a Facebook page in 2016, then went dormant for awhile. But now it’s back.