Poetry Fishbowl Report for November 6, 2012
This month's theme was "influential women." I worked from 12:30 PM to 3 AM on Tuesday, so about 12 hours 30 minutes, allowing for lunch and supper breaks. I worked a little more on Wednesday. A surge of prompts arrived early, with more trickling in later. I wrote 21 poems on Tuesday and another 4 on Wednesday. A majority were free verse, but I had several form poems this time. I also wrote a lot that combined multiple prompts.
A couple other things I noticed: There were more typos than average, so if you spot any that I haven't fixed yet, please point them out. Some of the poems tended toward a journalistic tone, because I was often working from articles about figures not already familiar to me personally.
Activity was high this month. A total of 25 people sent prompts. There were 74 comments on LiveJournal and another 5 on Dreamwidth. Please welcome new prompters laurarey, technoshaman, and Dreamwidth user primeideal. You have them to thank for the second freebie.
Read Some Poetry!
The following poems from the September 2012 Poetry Fishbowl have been posted:
" Birthshaking Changes"
" First and Foremost"
" Counting Their Contributions"
" Gifts of Simplicity" (One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis)
" Grandmothers of the Heart" (Hart's Farm)
" Her Burgundy Robe"
" Her Infinite Faces"
" How the Wordsmith Works"
" In Whose Strength Is Beauty"
" The Lady of Fantasy"
" The Languagewoman"
" Leading the Followers" (Fiorenza the Wisewoman)
" On Whose Shoulders"
" The Only Woman"
" The Queen of Thrones"
" A Quiet Fame" (50 comments!)
" Rarely Well Behaved"
" Say Something for the Suffragettes"
" Sisters, Brothers, Soldiers"
" Tea Service"
" Unspoken Influences"
" Unwritten License" (Torn World)
" The Demon in the Bottle" from October 2-3, 2012 (One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis)
" The Four Maras" from October 2-3, 2012 (Kung Fu Robots)
" Listening to God" from July 3, 2012 (The Arc of Joan)
See also " The Hand on the Loom" by marina_bonomi, written in response to " Rarely Well Behaved."
Buy Some Poetry!
If you plan to sponsor some poetry but haven't made up your mind yet, read the list of unsold poems from November. That includes the title, length, price, and the original thumbnail description for the poems still available.
All currently sponsored poems have been posted. Backchannel copies have been sent to the various prompters. Per the $200 goal, " Listening to God" is the free epic. Per the $250 goal, that's one tally toward a bonus fishbowl. Per the $300 goal, there will be a half-price sale in the Fledgling Grace series from November 19-25.
The donor perk is " Women in Poetry." Donors this month include kestrels_nest, laurarey, technoshaman, marina_bonomi, the_vulture, janetmiles, laffingkat, rix_scaedu, thesilentpoet, Stephen Laird, Anthony and Shirley Barrette. We passed the previous record of donations by a large margin. The bonus material for that is " Meals in Nether-England." Thank you all so much. You are made of 24-karat WIN!
The Poetry Fishbowl project also has a permanent landing page.
A couple other things I noticed: There were more typos than average, so if you spot any that I haven't fixed yet, please point them out. Some of the poems tended toward a journalistic tone, because I was often working from articles about figures not already familiar to me personally.
Activity was high this month. A total of 25 people sent prompts. There were 74 comments on LiveJournal and another 5 on Dreamwidth. Please welcome new prompters laurarey, technoshaman, and Dreamwidth user primeideal. You have them to thank for the second freebie.
Read Some Poetry!
The following poems from the September 2012 Poetry Fishbowl have been posted:
" Birthshaking Changes"
" First and Foremost"
" Counting Their Contributions"
" Gifts of Simplicity" (One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis)
" Grandmothers of the Heart" (Hart's Farm)
" Her Burgundy Robe"
" Her Infinite Faces"
" How the Wordsmith Works"
" In Whose Strength Is Beauty"
" The Lady of Fantasy"
" The Languagewoman"
" Leading the Followers" (Fiorenza the Wisewoman)
" On Whose Shoulders"
" The Only Woman"
" The Queen of Thrones"
" A Quiet Fame" (50 comments!)
" Rarely Well Behaved"
" Say Something for the Suffragettes"
" Sisters, Brothers, Soldiers"
" Tea Service"
" Unspoken Influences"
" Unwritten License" (Torn World)
" The Demon in the Bottle" from October 2-3, 2012 (One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis)
" The Four Maras" from October 2-3, 2012 (Kung Fu Robots)
" Listening to God" from July 3, 2012 (The Arc of Joan)
See also " The Hand on the Loom" by marina_bonomi, written in response to " Rarely Well Behaved."
Buy Some Poetry!
If you plan to sponsor some poetry but haven't made up your mind yet, read the list of unsold poems from November. That includes the title, length, price, and the original thumbnail description for the poems still available.
All currently sponsored poems have been posted. Backchannel copies have been sent to the various prompters. Per the $200 goal, " Listening to God" is the free epic. Per the $250 goal, that's one tally toward a bonus fishbowl. Per the $300 goal, there will be a half-price sale in the Fledgling Grace series from November 19-25.
The donor perk is " Women in Poetry." Donors this month include kestrels_nest, laurarey, technoshaman, marina_bonomi, the_vulture, janetmiles, laffingkat, rix_scaedu, thesilentpoet, Stephen Laird, Anthony and Shirley Barrette. We passed the previous record of donations by a large margin. The bonus material for that is " Meals in Nether-England." Thank you all so much. You are made of 24-karat WIN!
The Poetry Fishbowl project also has a permanent landing page.