InterNaPwoWriMo

mappletrey

2011-04-30T23:59:00.000-04:00

bibliobilirubbinical

2011-04-29T20:21:00.001-04:00

poempty

2011-04-29T00:01:00.000-04:00

exhustion

2011-04-28T18:07:00.003-04:00

exaust

2011-04-27T19:20:00.002-04:00

xunt

2011-04-27T19:19:00.002-04:00

A Pwoermdic Poem of Epithesis

2011-04-27T17:57:00.001-04:00

Sophia Le Fraga's "Feminlist" (with thanks to master pwoemdist Gary Barwin for the pointer).

The Pwoermds of Rachel Defay-Liautard

2011-04-27T10:21:00.000-04:00

Rachel Defay-Liautard has created a clutch of pwoermds for International Pwoermd Writing Month and has asked me to post them, so here they are. They are interestingly strange. A couple are simple portmanteaux, but most are strange little objects of disturbing and insistent beauty.

minicept

compôlepostition

dbldbldbldbl-chiasmeïos

hugly-dfuckling

blogastard

gonetocroatanist

nonamaddic

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teeeeth

2011-04-26T00:15:00.002-04:00

earthquache

2011-04-26T00:09:00.002-04:00

2011-04-25T23:59:00.000-04:00

A Visual Pwoermd Extracted from a Visual Poetry Sequence I Created Today

2011-04-24T17:47:00.000-04:00

Geof Huth, "syy&." (24 April 2011)

s/ight

2011-04-24T17:01:00.000-04:00

What Grows out of Death

2011-04-24T12:38:00.000-04:00

It seems that Easter—a reworked pagan holiday celebrating the advent of spring, and thus, symbolically, about birth and growing, and so also about rebirth and rising from the dead, as if the dead, not death, were something to rise from—seems like to remember what would have been one of the greatest pwoermds of all times, if it were only isolated as a single word instead of buried within the riptide of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: cropse.

The Wake is filled with thousands of words that could be great pwoermds, so maybe I should collect the best of these into a book sometime and use it to show the power of pwoermds and how they can stand well on their own. Yet one of the best remains "cropse," which is a reworking of "corpse" into "crops," a reworking of death into growing, and clearly an Easter poem, which I celebrate with this brief essay, headed by a faux-liturgical text that takes us through all the spellings "resurrection" has had in English.

Happy International Pwoermd Writing Month.

pw(o′er)md

dee(pe)rwards

2011-04-24T10:21:00.000-04:00

lionloin

2011-04-23T10:13:00.001-04:00

splanterings

2011-04-22T19:41:00.002-04:00

fallus

2011-04-22T16:21:00.002-04:00

enwrapture

2011-04-22T16:11:00.002-04:00

foetish

2011-04-22T12:31:00.004-04:00

transjaculation

2011-04-22T12:31:00.002-04:00

illusive

2011-04-22T12:30:00.005-04:00

psalmspasm

2011-04-22T12:30:00.003-04:00

innopenny

2011-04-22T12:30:00.001-04:00

driftword

2011-04-22T12:29:00.004-04:00

thoughthread

2011-04-22T12:29:00.001-04:00

blueblotthrust

2011-04-22T12:28:00.009-04:00

zign

2011-04-22T12:28:00.005-04:00

flintly

2011-04-22T12:28:00.001-04:00

psyclical

2011-04-22T12:27:00.004-04:00

gypsychic

2011-04-22T12:27:00.002-04:00

pusture

2011-04-22T12:27:00.000-04:00

goald

2011-04-22T12:26:00.005-04:00

fier

2011-04-22T12:26:00.002-04:00

[ ][ch][ ][am][ ][be][ ][red][ ]

2011-04-22T12:25:00.000-04:00

wordthrongblood

2011-04-22T12:23:00.001-04:00

l'oeiouvert

2011-04-21T23:25:00.000-04:00

palmslamp

2011-04-21T23:09:00.000-04:00

2011-04-20T19:35:00.000-04:00

fffflower

2011-04-20T18:39:00.003-04:00

nowonderful

2011-04-19T19:26:00.001-04:00

subpoenis

2011-04-18T17:10:00.002-04:00

dischord

2011-04-18T17:09:00.002-04:00

perfext

2011-04-17T00:01:00.000-04:00

2011-04-16T12:51:00.000-04:00

slayce

2011-04-15T23:01:00.001-04:00

subple

2011-04-14T22:42:00.000-04:00

teaves

2011-04-13T23:35:00.002-04:00

i'sle

2011-04-13T22:03:00.002-04:00

mægyk

2011-04-13T22:03:00.000-04:00

godn’t

2011-04-12T18:21:00.001-04:00

schwasser

2011-04-12T18:20:00.004-04:00

forkbulb

2011-04-12T18:20:00.001-04:00

ffluences

2011-04-12T18:19:00.000-04:00

tinderly

2011-04-12T18:18:00.002-04:00

NB

2011-04-12T01:14:00.003-04:00

I included a few pwoermds in this sequence of 50 short poems.

realife

2011-04-11T21:41:00.001-04:00

{cloud}y

2011-04-11T21:40:00.003-04:00

chrismatic

2011-04-11T00:39:00.002-04:00

goudged

2011-04-10T22:14:00.002-04:00

bruskque

2011-04-10T22:14:00.000-04:00

(revision)

2011-04-09T16:22:00.001-04:00

2011-04-09T16:18:00.000-04:00

ifinitum

2011-04-08T22:42:00.000-04:00

A Trio

2011-04-07T23:40:00.000-04:00

I present three new pwoermds by Tim Willette at dbqp: visualizing poetics.

pw(o'er)md

2011-04-07T23:37:00.001-04:00

2011-04-07T23:33:00.002-04:00

2011-04-07T23:31:00.001-04:00

2011-04-07T23:30:00.003-04:00

blead

2011-04-07T11:14:00.001-04:00

fgoethicalus

2011-04-06T22:24:00.002-04:00

2011-04-05T18:59:00.002-04:00

verring

2011-04-05T16:13:00.000-04:00

lurge

2011-04-04T23:22:00.002-04:00

rejamb-meant

2011-04-03T22:43:00.000-04:00

huthache

2011-04-03T22:36:00.000-04:00

Numbers Rise

2011-04-02T23:52:00.000-04:00

The number of folks I know working on International Pwoermd Writing Month IV has risen to 28, a number that includes not only my wife but also my first cousin once removed, Paul Wittenberg, who is still a youngster and inventing words unintentionally. Luckily, his mother is saving one good one for us each day. And Paul Siegel, I discovered, is on board. A good crowd from all over, and I can barely keep up watching what people are doing.

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utterbly

2011-04-02T23:46:00.002-04:00

The 25th

2011-04-02T10:32:00.002-04:00

I have just confirmed today that Mike Busam did, indeed, start working on InterNaPwoWriMo yesterday. His work will show up at his blog, "Everybody Funny." He is the 25th of us, a baker's two dozen.

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Up to Two Dozen

2011-04-01T23:02:00.000-04:00

International Pwoermd Writing Month now has 24 formal participants and a few people who seem to be participating with a little less daily determination, so those are good numbers. Some great works already.

Alex Davis has brought all the relevant feeds together in one address, to simplify your reading of these pwoermds. Thanks to Alex for that work!

pw(o'er)md

oreskin

2011-04-01T14:34:00.000-04:00

InterNaPwoWriMo IV is about to Begin

2011-03-31T23:36:00.000-04:00

As we wait the last few minutes before the beginning of InterNaPwoWriMo IV, let me report that we have as many participants this year as last year, so if one new participant appears, we'll have the biggest International Pwoermd Writing Month ever.

Also, if we count the Twitter hashtag (which we, unfortunately, cannot), then we'd've reached this high pinnacle of achievement.

Enjoy this new month's pwoermds.

pw(o'er)md

12 So Far for InterNaPwoWriMo IV

2011-03-31T00:17:00.001-04:00

Thus far, twelve of us have signed up for InterNaPwoWriMo, meaning I need at least eight more participants to make this the biggest annual celebration of pwoermds ever. Get involved. Tell you friends. Change the world.

pw(o'er)md

Preparing for InterNaPwoWriMo IV

2011-03-29T23:29:00.000-04:00

If you will be writing a pwoermd (or a one-word poem) a day during April to celebration the Fourth International Pwoermd Writing Month, send me a note, so I can add you to the list and follow your progress. My goal is to have at least twenty participants this year (or one more than last year!).

pw(o'er)md

read

2010-04-30T21:33:00.000-04:00

Kruptcy

2010-04-30T21:32:00.001-04:00

evernetherward

2010-04-30T00:31:00.001-04:00

wereword

2010-04-29T23:34:00.002-04:00

r((())e

2010-04-28T23:29:00.000-04:00

eyelip

2010-04-28T19:32:00.001-04:00

istle

2010-04-28T19:31:00.002-04:00

oodsmo

2010-04-28T19:31:00.000-04:00

perlescence

2010-04-28T19:30:00.001-04:00

Teaching Pwoermds

2010-04-28T18:02:00.003-04:00

Jonathan Jones sent me a note today telling me about his teaching of pwoermds in the classroom, a proper celebration of InterNaPwoWriMo I'd say:

Just done [with] an introductory class on pwoermds for the incoming 8th Grade. It was interesting to see the kids who declared they were confirmed 'non readers' at the start enjoying this kind of writing/reading.

Mostly they were yours - but I slipped in some of mine.

They particularly liked my:

r(((((((bs

and your:

fjshjng

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Review of ntst

2010-04-28T17:56:00.005-04:00

I discovered today that Gökhan Turhan has reviewed, in Turkish (of course), my book: ntst: the collected pwoermds of geof huth. Almost as good as the obvious kindness behind the Gökhan's words as translated by Google are the poetically misformed sentences created by the machine translation, like "do not need to be forced to inject an attachment, do not specify a jurisdiction, as, and does not cut it open, or pretended to be concluded with a closing narrative has not abandoned us in the final analysis."

pw(o'er)md

enomenon

2010-04-27T23:26:00.001-04:00

oaming

2010-04-27T23:20:00.001-04:00

phrenetic

2010-04-26T22:40:00.001-04:00

exequated

2010-04-25T23:24:00.001-04:00

contra'ction

2010-04-25T00:14:00.002-04:00