Constraints
"...rats caught in a maze of their own design..."
A collection of writing operations and constraints inspired by the
OuLiPo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) and others!
Give one a shot!
TEXT Bad Poetry
Some poets are accused of just writing prose,
then putting extra line breaks in.
That's this.
TEXT Benjaminian Code
How to hide your communiques for fun (and profit?)
TEXT Continuous Climbing Rhyme
Two variants of the "Yadu" poetic form of "climbing rhyme"
but the climbing folds back on itself.
TEXT Day Poems
A poem a day keeps.........
TEXT De Bruijn Schema
unruly characters? Look no further!
TEXT Expansion by Tautogram
A word is worth a thousand words, and this proves it!
TEXT Gestures
What else could a set of gestures be?
TEXT License Plates
License plates as poetic devices.
TEXT Melancholic
Going from particular to general.
TEXT Metric Reading
Writing works which fit into a ride on public transit.
TEXT Mishearing Poems
What?! What did you say!?
TEXT Object-Event Transposition
Something happens to a thing in various locations.
TEXT Occlusion
You occlude buildings with your steps and that
occludes your poem
TEXT Orlando
Fulfill "the first duty of the poet" as expressed in
Virginia Wolf's book of the same name.
TEXT Present//Absent
Sequences of materials are transformed into textual
sequences of presence and absence.
TEXT Routes
One route, many locations.
TEXT Expansion Sestina
The first stanza of a Sestina is worth the whole thing.
TEXT The Language of Flowers
Decode the emotions of words and bouquets.
TEXT Villanelle Variations
Sometimes you just gotta yearn.
TEXT Windows
The poetics of windows.
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