Son of Godawful Poetry Fortnight – 19th – 31st August, 2009
Caferati launched the first Godawful Poetry Fortnight last year. (You can read all our contributions here, and this was a brief article in the TOI about the Fortnight.)
Cut to the chase: it’s that time of the year again!
The essentials:
• Godawful Poetry Fortnight runs from the 19th to the 31st August.
• Patron Saint is William Wordsworth.
And he gets this signal honour for saying that poetry “is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” Way too many aspiring poets have rallied behind that banner, too few going so far as recollecting those emotions in tranquillity, let alone reading the rest of the preface to Lyrical Ballads (which can be found on Bartleby, for those interested).
• To join in, all you have to do is post on your blog* a godawful poem you have written, with—all totally optional—a brief note about GPF, a bit about what godawful poetry means to you, and a link to this post.
• Post godawful poems as often as you like during the Fortnight. (The True Believers Challenge: post thirteen godawful poems, one on each day of the Fortnight.) Squeeze your muse like a boil. Get it all out. Pester your friends to post too. Once GPF is done, you will write good poetry for the rest of the year, yes?
• Please use this Technorati tag on your post: Godawful Poetry Fortnight. Here’s the HTML for the tag: Godawful Poetry Fortnight
• To those who feel the need to point out this Fortnight lasts only thirteen days, we draw our cape around us, and say, in a marked manner, “Poetic license.”
* If you don’t have a blog, you’re welcome to either use the Godawful Poetry Fortnight thread over at Caferati or at zigzackly’s blog.
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