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