Time for a Collective... Travel and Travelling

poetinahat · Mar 18, 2010

Hey, all - would anybody be interested in another group project? We've had marvelous results with Blue Rock and with Hollis Brown.

We've also had Absolute Poetry Vol. 1, which ended up well and taught us a lot about how to do it next time.

What does anyone think -- another concept project? I'm thinking. Let's shoot the breeze about it and see what else takes your fancy.

SirOtter · Mar 18, 2010

Well, if historical themes happen to be agreed upon by the populace, I happen to have a poem in inventory that begins

There just ain't no disputin'
What a rascal was Rasputin...

dobiwon · Mar 18, 2010

How about a collection of poems about things/peoples/places that inspire us? Working title: "Absolutely Inspiring"?

Feiss · Mar 18, 2010

I'm in a dramatic mood today. How about moments of despair, moments of utter joy?

SirOtter · Mar 19, 2010

I like the inspiration idea. It inspires me. I'm not sure a purveyor of light verse such as myself will find much inspiration in despair, and joy is more than I find called upon to express generally.

JD Robertson · Mar 19, 2010

I like the idea of whatever inspires us.

kdnxdr · Mar 22, 2010

Somewhere or other, I saw an e-zine or a mag of some kind that was taking submissions for poems about writing. I, personally, like to write poems about writing and words and even wrote a poem about a question mark one time.

What about a book about what inspires us and just about our love of writing? The poems could be melded together to present one and then the other.

Also, we could hunt around and see who is taking submissions for competitions of first chapbooks of poetry and see if we could enter as a group, if such a competition exists. If so, we could write for the competition.

Or, we could write a compilation of several different forms of poetry to present a smorgesbord(?) of poetry types and offer brief explanations of our type. As a selling point, teachers could use it to promote poetry to their students.

Or, we could write poems to fit a story line like we did Blue Rock or Hollis Brown. If anyone is interested to that one, I vote that we write about what we see around us as we travel around where we are in the world. That would give the project a real global feel.

Opps......sorry, getting a little carried away.

Dichroic · Mar 24, 2010

This is my traveler's heart speaking: how about poems on our favorite places? Since we have a worldwide group, it would be fun seeing all the places represented.

Feiss · Mar 24, 2010

ooo I like di's

poetinahat · Mar 25, 2010

hmmm. Maybe a 'Travels with So-and-So' setup? That could encompass all these ideas.

Hmmm.

caseyquinn · Mar 25, 2010

i agree that there needs to be a strong theme for the book. a few months back we tried to do a collection where everyone can submit whatever they want. we really didnt get enough submissions to do the book and in the end what we had was very sporadic i dont think it would have flowed as well as it could have.

a theme, at least a general consistent direction i think will make it much more fluid as a book

Stew21 · Mar 25, 2010

poetinahat said:
hmmm. Maybe a 'Travels with So-and-So' setup? That could encompass all these ideas.

Hmmm.

like this very much.

Travels with...

and it certainly could be about inspiration, joy and dispair - just wrapped up in a Place.

Like this very much.

Priene · Mar 25, 2010

The Travel theme has great appeal for me.

kdnxdr · Mar 25, 2010

Hmmmmmmmm...........

thinking........

thinking.........

AbsoluteWrite's Poetic Travel Guide??

AbsoluteWrite's Absolutely Poetic World??

AbsoluteWrite Poetics Around the World??

AbsoluteWrite's Poetic Community Around the World???

...........just thinking...............

kdnxdr · Mar 25, 2010

The Poetic World

A Collection of Poems from
the AbsoluteWrite Poetic Community

kdnxdr · Mar 25, 2010

The Poetic Village

AbsoluteWrite's Global Poetry
Community

deepprincealain · Mar 25, 2010

I don't post in the poetry section as often as I sometimes intend, but the travel theme seems to be a great idea. Strong enough that the collection will flow, but not so specific that anyone will feel painted into a corner.

AnonymousWriter · Mar 25, 2010

I'm a fan of the travel theme!

Steppe · Mar 26, 2010

Nothing complicated. Just Travels or travels with or maybe to will do.

poetinahat · Oct 29, 2010

I've been thinking more about this, and I like the travel theme. It's a good, open theme and can be treated any number of ways -- the places one goes, the things that happen in strange places, chance encounters, what it feels like to ride a bus, where you stop for lunch (see "Come In... We're OPEN" in Poetry Critique for an example).

And, like the Blue Rock and Hollis Brown projects, the poems can play off each other, sharing characters and events. That made Blue Rock especially interesting.

It's been six months, I know... I hope people will still be interested. Let's go.

Let's do it. I'll put up a discussion thread out here, and a thread for the poems in Critique.

WAIT... a title. "On the Road"? Taken. "Travels with Charley"? Nix. "The Road Less Traveled"? Oh.

Hmm.

Dichroic · Oct 29, 2010

"Oh, the Places You'll Go"? "A Tramp Abroad"? "I Met a Traveller?" (Though not necessarily in an antique land.)

poetinahat · Oct 29, 2010

Dichroic said:
"A Tramp Abroad"?

Magdalen · Oct 29, 2010

How about, "We Don't Need No Stinkin' Roads" ?

Dichroic · Oct 29, 2010

poetinahat said:

Don't blame me, blame Kipling. (And I think he might have meant it both ways.)

poetinahat · Oct 29, 2010

I didn't know you kippled. *rimshot*

We could reset it as "A Tramp, A Broad" and make it a Sinatra/Vegas kitsch thing.

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