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Taverner's Koans is a one-room schoolhouse -- okay, make that a sprawling public commons -- of experimental poetry and poetics. We have writing exercises, essays on poets, a critique workshop, excursions into poetics, the occasional thoughtful diatribe, a chapbook press, The Wraith (a weblog-style poetry zine) and much more. Read on here if you want to know more about what this site is all about. And remember: a poet is you!
Speculative Poetry working group
There is a discussion group called The People's League of Speculative Poetry that some of you may be interested in:
People's League of Speculative Poetry
Browse Archives at groups.google.com
| (admin, Tue 17th Oct 2006 06:40) | Weblog | Comments (0) |
On Kooser
I probably shouldn't care if Ted Kooser sneezes--easy pickings, right?--but I can't help my obsession with him. Probably because the things he says, which are no doubt received as folksy wisdom by many of those who read his crappy newspaper column, are...
| (admin, Fri 29th Jul 2005 01:46) | Poetics | Comments (0) |
Taverner's Koans RSS feed
For those of you who are blog readers from XML feeds, or use a website like Bloglines, I finally figured out the URL for the RSS feed of Taverner's Koans:
http://www.taverners-koans.com/rss.php
Dastardly simple, isn't it? Well,...
| (admin, Tue 03rd May 2005 04:57) | Weblog | Comments (0) |
A Speculative Poem (Exercise #2)
This is a persona poem. Kind of. Like the previous speculative writing exercise, it has a lot more to do with placing yourself and inhabiting a different linguistic space. For our purposes this is "The Imagined Future". Put yourself in the shoes (or moonboots,...
| (admin, Wed 09th Feb 2005 05:08) | Writing Exercises | Comments (2) |
"The Little Apocalypse That Could" (part three) by Michael Helsem
It is music--as a tesseract is a box.
Druidicals, though, comprise the tricks of the trade--and you can never know too many. ome you prepare in advance, others emerge as you go. Some are discovered long after as unconscious habits. They can...
| (admin, Sun 23rd Jan 2005 01:04) | Poetics | Comments (0) |
Contradictory Pedagogies
It took me a bit of time--oh, seven and a half years or so--to start figuring out what Taverner's Koans actually meant. Or rather, what it could mean as a form of guiding practice. And, perhaps not surprisingly, it rests on a paradox in regards to the...
| (admin, Mon 06th Dec 2004 01:10) | Weblog | Comments (2) |
"The Nines" by Sheila Murphy
She gestured to justice to enable radial imbalance to be chucked
Adroit tossing of lemons made a nice paste
Equally the liturgy was read by fragrant fathers
A leisure mode resulted in a vehicle that would accommodate a passel of
| (admin, Sat 20th Nov 2004 12:31) | The Wraith | Comments (1) |
Embracing the Asinine
(And how do you leave What We Know For Sure About Art when you are What We Know For Sure About Art, that bad light, those muddy streets, that ice? --Joe Ahearn)
(It's very difficult to second-guess cultural development, because you are basically...
| (admin, Fri 19th Nov 2004 07:52) | Poetics | Comments (0) |
"The Little Apocalypse that Could" (part two) by Michael Helsem
While the framing of a conventional work consists of the illusion that it has no frame (“I, poet, experienced this & say to you now”), works doubly masked sometimes divide neatly into an inner part & an outer that may or may not contradict it. Ideally,...
| (admin, Thu 18th Nov 2004 01:05) | Poetics | Comments (0) |
The Launch. It's, er, launched.
Well, here it is. Watch your step, there's still a wee bit of work to be done. But this will give you a pretty good idea of the tenor and shape of the new site. Very exciting--with still some work to be done. But the way the site is set up now, it's eminently...
| (admin, Wed 17th Nov 2004 01:13) | Weblog | Comments (0) |
"Before" by Cindra Halm
Uncrack the egg; reset the unspun sun
to its pre-lighted what-if, all beg and be.
Unmask the dormant door; protect the dark
until dark; return to the dark, restore
hand over hand on the silk thread ravelling
to...
| (admin, Tue 16th Nov 2004 12:14) | The Wraith | Comments (1) |
Kathleen Fraser (b. 1937)
He isn't here, nor his page of exertion
No close-written excavation of particulars
to inscribe a limit
Footstep's parallel replica
such breathing
(from "Norchia")
Kathleen Fraser, author of 14 books...
| (admin, Mon 15th Nov 2004 02:28) | PoetFiles | Comments (0) |
"unsteady" by Jonathan Hayes
[pick a St.]
bursting/stasis
petrified: eons de naranja-veined
emotions emerge con la
Vox
de la orange windy season
halloween supper-knife cutting
unclosed...
| (admin, Mon 15th Nov 2004 12:13) | The Wraith | Comments (0) |
The Occasional Poet, by Maximum Lizard
Once you are away from school or the writing workshop the nature of writing poetry changes. There is no one giving you assignments, no due dates, no feedback. You are alone with your own motivation and self-discipline. Good Luck. How can you produce the...
| (admin, Mon 15th Nov 2004 12:08) | Poetics | Comments (0) |
A Speculative Poem
A speculative poem (at least, one definition of it) is one that posits a field of linguistic inquiry in some other-space, whether historical, metaphysical, or scientific/material. In a broader sense, all poetry can be seen as speculative, since language...
| (admin, Tue 09th Nov 2004 04:03) | Writing Exercises | Comments (0) |
"The Little Apocalypse that Could" by Michael Helsem
"For many a fair Precept in Poetry is like a seeming Demonstration in the Mathematicks, very specious in the Diagram, but failing in the Mechanick Operation." --Dryden, preface to Sylvae (1685)
Style is a kiln; the basilisk gaze of will...
| (admin, Mon 08th Nov 2004 06:02) | Poetics | Comments (0) |
Thinking Outside the Workshop
Dominating the instruction of creative writing, the workshop model can at times seem involiate and etched in stone. But why is this? After all, for centuries, an institutionalized workshop practice didn't exist at all.
Perhaps the prime...
| (admin, Fri 05th Nov 2004 03:24) | Poetics | Comments (0) |
Collective Animal Nouns
To use a baseball metaphor, each time you think you've got the bases covered with the English language, it steals home. Or second. Or whatever. Such is the case with the glorious array of collective animal nouns herein presented, which are perfect springing...
| (admin, Wed 03rd Nov 2004 01:46) | Writing Exercises | Comments (0) |
Basil Bunting (1900-1985)
Farewell ye sequent graces
voided faces still evasive!
Silent leavetaking and mournful
as nightwanderings
in unlit rooms or where the glow
of wall-reflected streetlamp light
or hasty matches shadowed large
and...
| (admin, Wed 03rd Nov 2004 01:38) | PoetFiles | Comments (0) |
Double Helix on the Dime
This is an exercise in melding together, in the same creative impulse and tempo (that is, right after each other) two poems that have very different contours and textures. Let the fooling around with them come from the same place, however fractured that...
| (admin, Tue 02nd Nov 2004 03:56) | Writing Exercises | Comments (0) |
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