Response to a Visual Pwoermd by aditya bahl

you say,

but I say,

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InterNaPwoWriMo VI (2013) Documented at Last

Just a note today to say that I received the wisdoms of the universes in a single string of letters, which is "A record of the 2013 International Pwoermd Writing Month." Edited and designed by mIEKAL aND, this little handful of a book is a collection of all the pwoermds of that InterNaPwoWriMo that mIEKAL and I could collect from the pwoermdists working that year. It is also a dense collection of what the pwoermd can do, as evidenced by the work of 31 people.

The book opens with a little essay by me on pwoermds and InterNaPwoWriMo--an essay that opens with a sentence by Ralph Waldo Emerson, a sentence that seems to be about pwoermds, and also a sentence that the poet Donato Mancini independently wrote himself this week. It also includes short micro-essays on five pwoermds in the anthology.

Buy your copy soon, while copies are still available on print on demand (follow the link):

the wisdoms of the universes in a single string of letters

A record of the 2013 International Pwoermd Writing Month

2015, 5.06 " x7.81 " | 164 pgs, b+w | US$14.00
ISBN 1-936687-26-7 | ISBN-13 978-1-936687-26-8

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fealthynimux

trust | rust | us

marveastiness

Pwoermdname of Billy Mavreas

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kengquartzscwmbfjivphloxy’d

Pangrammatic pwoermd for Terry Baxter, Beaver Archivist 

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Pwoermdic Meditation 10

Leave the pwoermd alone, and it will still conduct meaning. Put the pwoermd in the corner of a dark room, and it mean something more. Place the pwoermd in the sun, and it will burn.

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Pwoermdic Meditation 9

Don't ask what the pwoermd is. Do not try to make it give up its secrets. Take it into your body. Take it into your body, and allow it to melt.

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Response to a Pwoermd by Boyd Nutting

he spread the hoily into her forehead, intoning words in some unknown but fragrant language

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kesamimebu

pwoermdname of Mike Busam

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signgingningn

w'hatever

boat

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rember

l(i.e.)s

Pwoermdic Meditation 8

The only way to lie is with a word. The best word to lie with is the pwoermd. As a poet, you must accept the responsibility to lie through poetry. Use the pwoermd well.

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Pwoermdic Meditation 7

Why do you want the pwoermd to make your life better? Why does the pwoermd make your life better? How could you make your life better without the pwoermd?

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Response to a Pwoermd by Andrew Topel

grammarred and syntaxed

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top-and-el-drew

pwoermdname of Andrew Topel

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fower

Cover

ardour

devore

ferveer

pervire

revure

fower

Boxed and Boxed Again

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creedense

tumblesee

angle-bangle

Pwoermdic Meditation 6

A pwoermd is but a word, but a word is but a universe. 

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ASTONE

ployable

fecescious

comma,d

i.

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dittommaccannellisso

pwoermdname of Mike Di Tommaso (né Cannell)

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Three New Pwoermdists Join the Fray

Sven Staelens, [vispwoermd, untitled] (23 April 2015)

Joining the International Pwoermd Writing Month late, or I'm just noticing them are three men doing some fine work, so check them out:

• Sébastien Dulude (Facebook)
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• Jeffrey Vanderson (Twitter)
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• Michael Zarichnyi (Tumblr)

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interconcupiscentialisticmaterialityesteryokingdominationunnaturdorabilitationaryexploitsecretionarydurabillionswervedirectevisedeliquescencencensurialaborioutwardlyearningtotogethereboanthologyouthfulnessuaryjeerfulsomnambulancetituarzed

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Response to a Pwoermd by Johannes H. S. Bjerg

he was surrounded by the omniscent, his olfactory senses aroused and overburdened

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Les neiges d'avril

Sébastien Dulude, "neiggggggggge" (April 2015)

The edges of a word are not necessarily clear. Its extent is uncertain. When does is stop meaning one thing and turn into other meanings? When does its meaning divide? Where does one word end and the next word begin? In the classical age, writing was all of a mass, a single string of letters, not so much as a sliver of space between words, as if the spoken language had no pauses between words--which it often does not. Children, whose minds are an articulated grey clay, listen enough by the sounds of words that the boundaries of them become impressed in their minds, but it is a long process. If a word is written where does it end? We assume at its last letter, but some words come to us in two strings of letters. I always spell the word "no one" as "no-one" to make this point: it is a single word.

So the French word for "snow" ("neige") written with its g nonupled and imbricated as a vertical line through the word is still a single word, one silently or not so silently extended by its reaching northward and southward from the horizontal plane of the word.

All of it snowing, dark and black, stark, in a medium blue sky.

The two-storey g's are sifting, shifting, out of the sky and through the word "neige" itself. The nonuplicated g's can be perceived as entirely silent (nothing but a visualization of snow) or as the continuation of the soft hum of a French j, the sound of snowfall, almost silent, but not, and an enduring sound.

It all works. A little beauty. The simple mise-en-page. The sound that lingers in our heads. Something that reminds us that even April sometimes snows gently upon us.

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ritten

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hellseem

pwoermdname of Michael Helsem

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Pwoermdic Meditation 5

A pwoermd should always hurt your head. 

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woulden’ | ledd | slidt

angallaghosterse

pwoermdname of Sean Gallagher

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Response to Two Pwoermds by Jeffrey Vanderson

the neonæon lights went on forever, and the night itself continued farther still

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farever

interreletenship

stworthy

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