Word Games & Online Poetry Collaboration
The Albany Poetry Workshop Group Poem
From the seed of a title (William Carlos Williams' “The Red Wheelbarrow” or Muso Soseki's “Magnificent Peak”) & first line (“So much depends” or “By its own nature”), a new poem will evolve, each poet adding one & only one line. Check back & see what grows here!
From the seed of a title (William Carlos Williams' “The Red Wheelbarrow” or Muso Soseki's “Magnificent Peak”) & first line (“So much depends” or “By its own nature”), a new poem will evolve, each poet adding one & only one line. Check back & see what grows here!
Alien Flower
“Where poets and performers have fun.” Now hear this text. Write now! A self-guided wordshop. Hie thee, Birdcage!
“Where poets and performers have fun.” Now hear this text. Write now! A self-guided wordshop. Hie thee, Birdcage!
Brain Gym
Exercise your language at Cole Schweikhardt’s Brain Gym Interactive. You can post a poem for inclusion in the ever-changing rotation of 20, add 20 lines to the currently running collaborative short story, choose a title from “Extemporaneous,” or contribute to the Haiku Room.
Exercise your language at Cole Schweikhardt’s Brain Gym Interactive. You can post a poem for inclusion in the ever-changing rotation of 20, add 20 lines to the currently running collaborative short story, choose a title from “Extemporaneous,” or contribute to the Haiku Room.
Darwinian Poetry
An experiment at David Rea’s CodeAsArt site in which readers choose from among pairs of poems made of randomly combined phrases “to see if non-negotiated collaboration can evolve interesting poetry using (un)natural selection.”
An experiment at David Rea’s CodeAsArt site in which readers choose from among pairs of poems made of randomly combined phrases “to see if non-negotiated collaboration can evolve interesting poetry using (un)natural selection.”
EPC Collaborative Poem
Suite Add-A-Line: Need some cushions to prop up your muse? Feeling communal? Ticket in hatband? There's no reason to try -- just do! go to the Buffalo Poetics Collaborative Poem and get syndromic!
Suite Add-A-Line: Need some cushions to prop up your muse? Feeling communal? Ticket in hatband? There's no reason to try -- just do! go to the Buffalo Poetics Collaborative Poem and get syndromic!
First Lines, A Sort of Literacy Test
John Dobbins & Mary Ochs at Cornell have put together a game that challenges you to name the book given the first line.
John Dobbins & Mary Ochs at Cornell have put together a game that challenges you to name the book given the first line.
Heat
“A time-space love story” collaborative Web CD to click through, brought to you by Mother Spiral (Meg Wise-Lawrence, Althea Katz, Janan Platt Saylor & Gael Morlan).
“A time-space love story” collaborative Web CD to click through, brought to you by Mother Spiral (Meg Wise-Lawrence, Althea Katz, Janan Platt Saylor & Gael Morlan).
The Interactive Poetry Pages
In Ann Cantelow’s collaborative poetry salon, wander through rooms devoted to free-form, high critique, rhyming poetry, haiku, gothic-surreal, song lyrics & teen concerns. You can start a new poem, add a line or comment on the poems in progress, or end a poem if it seems finished to you.
In Ann Cantelow’s collaborative poetry salon, wander through rooms devoted to free-form, high critique, rhyming poetry, haiku, gothic-surreal, song lyrics & teen concerns. You can start a new poem, add a line or comment on the poems in progress, or end a poem if it seems finished to you.
Internet Anagram Server
Brought to you by A.Word.A.Day's Anu Garg (“Raga Gun?”), I, Rearrangement Servant, or Internet Anagram Server (“formerly known as: Inert Net Grave Near Mars”) will anagram any word or phrase you choose.
Brought to you by A.Word.A.Day's Anu Garg (“Raga Gun?”), I, Rearrangement Servant, or Internet Anagram Server (“formerly known as: Inert Net Grave Near Mars”) will anagram any word or phrase you choose.
“Literature Nation”
This “interwriting” by miekal and & Maria Damon is a poem that weaves your mind in. Plenty of gifs & sound -- pick hit for finding the cyberpoem of your dream, really!
This “interwriting” by miekal and & Maria Damon is a poem that weaves your mind in. Plenty of gifs & sound -- pick hit for finding the cyberpoem of your dream, really!
The Magic of Words
Reiner Strasser’s The Virtual Affair site has this “themed guestbook,” where poets are invited to “...write with others and me / another virtual story or poem / ...or something else / i do not know / what it will become ...we will see / ...each writer is a figure / the Net is the stage.”
Reiner Strasser’s The Virtual Affair site has this “themed guestbook,” where poets are invited to “...write with others and me / another virtual story or poem / ...or something else / i do not know / what it will become ...we will see / ...each writer is a figure / the Net is the stage.”
Maheecoozookey
AHA! Poetry’s online version of the Japanese game of linked, collaborative senryu -- a maekuzuki contest transplanted from the barroom to the Net. Post your poem & see what linking poem-responses you get back, or take a look at the posted beginning-poems & write an answering link.
AHA! Poetry’s online version of the Japanese game of linked, collaborative senryu -- a maekuzuki contest transplanted from the barroom to the Net. Post your poem & see what linking poem-responses you get back, or take a look at the posted beginning-poems & write an answering link.
Newspoetry
William Gillespie & friends embarked on a year-long collaborative writing project in 1999 -- a new poem every day until the year 2000 about events in the news. They invited contributions to help create “an alternative online news source where credibility is secondary to interesting writing” -- and Newspoetry went on for 3 more years, until 2002.
William Gillespie & friends embarked on a year-long collaborative writing project in 1999 -- a new poem every day until the year 2000 about events in the news. They invited contributions to help create “an alternative online news source where credibility is secondary to interesting writing” -- and Newspoetry went on for 3 more years, until 2002.
“Outside the Bother of Sunlight”
From P O T E P O E T T E X T, Peter Ganick’s online zine exploring text irreverence and avant mind -- here’s a collab between Sheila Murphy & Lewis Lacook.
From P O T E P O E T T E X T, Peter Ganick’s online zine exploring text irreverence and avant mind -- here’s a collab between Sheila Murphy & Lewis Lacook.
“Pronunciation Help[?]”
A poem that both tests & teaches (in its end-rhymes) the vagaries of English pronunciation, one of many spoken-English resources from About.com ESL Guide Kenneth Beare.
A poem that both tests & teaches (in its end-rhymes) the vagaries of English pronunciation, one of many spoken-English resources from About.com ESL Guide Kenneth Beare.
Pyrowords Interactive Poetry Page
Ann Cantelow designed this interactive poetry-writing page for Pyrowords -- as at her own collaborative salons, you can start a new poem, add a line or comment on the poems in progress, or end a poem if it seems finished to you.
Ann Cantelow designed this interactive poetry-writing page for Pyrowords -- as at her own collaborative salons, you can start a new poem, add a line or comment on the poems in progress, or end a poem if it seems finished to you.
randomplace.com
Scroll down past the art gallery & you'll find random poetry, words at play -- be quick & click on 300 “poems@random.”
Scroll down past the art gallery & you'll find random poetry, words at play -- be quick & click on 300 “poems@random.”
Shakespeare Sonnet Quiz
Test your knowledge of the Bard with Shax.net’s Java quiz: it gives you the heroic couplets from 154 Shakespearean sonnets & asks you to fill in the final rhymes, keeping score as you go along.
Test your knowledge of the Bard with Shax.net’s Java quiz: it gives you the heroic couplets from 154 Shakespearean sonnets & asks you to fill in the final rhymes, keeping score as you go along.
“The Tapestry of Hope”
D.Paul/Small's Colabart site invited contributions to an interactive poem which became part of the Elements multimedia exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery November 1998 to January 1999.
D.Paul/Small's Colabart site invited contributions to an interactive poem which became part of the Elements multimedia exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery November 1998 to January 1999.
20 Consonant Poetry
Face the challenge of using all 20 consonants and push your poetry envelope.
Face the challenge of using all 20 consonants and push your poetry envelope.
Where's THAT From? Etymology Word Game
If you need to jog something loose in your mind but don't know quite what, take a break & play this multiple-choice game of word origins, from the folks at Intuitive Systems.
If you need to jog something loose in your mind but don't know quite what, take a break & play this multiple-choice game of word origins, from the folks at Intuitive Systems.
wordsworth (Bowerbird Intelligentleman)
From the truest conceptual self-created po-maven this planetside, “a thousand words worth more than any picture.” Choose a word & bid to add it to the list, see to it you get your words' worth here, and send BoweryBird all your money also.
From the truest conceptual self-created po-maven this planetside, “a thousand words worth more than any picture.” Choose a word & bid to add it to the list, see to it you get your words' worth here, and send BoweryBird all your money also.
Writers List Interactive Stories
Mike Barker's MIT-based subscription listserv has several group-written stories going on at once in different genres. Lots of etiquette about respecting other contributors' plot lines & reserved characters, because the focus is on fiction here, but nothing says you can't start your own interactive piece & make it a poem!
Mike Barker's MIT-based subscription listserv has several group-written stories going on at once in different genres. Lots of etiquette about respecting other contributors' plot lines & reserved characters, because the focus is on fiction here, but nothing says you can't start your own interactive piece & make it a poem!