DECONSTRUCTION AND REMOVAL FROM PUBLIC VIEW COMPLETED - SUBMISSIONS RETURNED TO THE AUTHORS 1/11/10. Freestyle or classic. Show everyone your very best stuff. Try concrete poetry or surreal. Be creative and build your own castle in the sky.
The Phenomenon Machine
"The words poem and poetry derive from the Greek poiēma (to make) and poieo (to create). That is, a poem is a made thing: a creation; an artifact. One might think of a poem as, in the words of William Carlos Williams, a "machine made of words". Machines produce some effect, or do some work. They do whatever they are designed to do. The work done by this "machine made of words" is the effect it produces in the reader's mind." (see project chat forum)
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The Phenomenon Machine
"The words poem and poetry derive from the Greek poiēma (to make) and poieo (to create). That is, a poem is a made thing: a creation; an artifact. One might think of a poem as, in the words of William Carlos Williams, a "machine made of words". Machines produce some effect, or do some work. They do whatever they are designed to do. The work done by this "machine made of words" is the effect it produces in the reader's mind." (see project chat forum)
"A tolerable definition of poetry, on its formal side, might be found in this: that poetry is speech in which the instrument counts as well as the meaning--poetry is speech for its own sake and for its own sweetness. As common windows are intended only to admit the light, but painted windows also to dye it, and to be an object of attention in themselves as well as a cause of visibility in other things, so, while the purest prose is a mere vehicle of thought, verse, like stained glass, arrests attention in its own intricacies, confuses it in its own glories, and is even at time allowed to darken and puzzle in the hope of casting over us a supernatural spell." (The Elements and Function of Poetry, George Santayana=see project chat forum)
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TABLE of POETS=Just click on the link to go to the first submission and the grouping of poems from each poet.
~A2Kdavis
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=007b67021b1544ff8d53183ab0f8995c ~A_David
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=5873ea9dbb694d4bb91f609314f0ef02 ~AlexJewell
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=846fe27853c9416a8fae6da4f4dd117b ~Alicechloe
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=351498e9459e4abbbee294961fb6c78a ~AndHereWeGo
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=61269c90a6714eeaaf405f2225b95cbe ~Antiphon
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=f18438b834de4836a90a5db1e936c98c ~AnusteMoon
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=5576c3a8b9354980b6da9832ceee3727 ~audrarep
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=8a5cef59565a4c94812557f1361a544a ~Bardlad
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=cdc2ebb1b7164271bbd8d5e253056c80 ~BStyles
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=8333901cb1a74de59303aa7c4012e63f ~Clair
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=abd78c9d4f70400286163d386f6120f5 ~Clubberson
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=99bac3cfd31849f99fd9c61c200c4ab0 ~Debra_Edwards
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=69b2a1016e0744bea5dc547e97254e7a ~Dina2674
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=18f8ad605b704864a216f2ebe52a1c9a ~Fwah_Storm
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=7c9d34aae0e44241bd898fb21af65591 ~Georgina
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=ab75046aeeb043cba3c092f553988e4a ~Guinevere
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=3cfec5ab09644385af98b783cc5b1816 ~gypsy_soul
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=f1c879129e104f969cf6a30098a2dcc0 ~HaydenMessenger
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=800b20f6fa3241959fd0bf6443f3b331 ~heaven17
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=9e33c83b7157442b86c5d966651f4523 ~hey_word
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=807fbe05748a4b039bbc3c923a15d90d ~HollySBlue3
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=463c09cd53f54c3abc3611e6687aa234 ~IRISH
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=20fdff19f06f4d1d979775fb3676d84c ~JackieB
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=255ba8a9c3cd4adf8071b8235f96115e ~james_en_rose
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=4f508c8cd00e4be8a85cc3f590643007 ~jaredAA515
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=69538fbc92764677bacb8a8f73f4fb78 ~laddie
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=4425d88cbb48407ab1c47228f61c5d70 ~Little_Hellion
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=68caea210e5340c1bc2818c7e6cd2670 ~LondisCarpenter
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=72ed669224d844f4a5a57081130bc6f0 ~Lunar_Dream
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=89430c25ccd64f1facfa7cb452977fc5 ~Mania
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=3f7f8844fc854d3d97c4b3199eec215b ~MarciZ6
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=97fc5f44866b4ca8bc1d0493249d599c ~meredithoneil
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=fd26c3510df448ce93cf9d4a35e59f90 ~MOshell
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=397ab74045204cd9873037bc33efd408 ~MrsFlutterby
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=cf916ad5a48e41179322346afefaa821 ~mytruth
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=22e3b1b2ab6e464ba7ee511c8e69b3d2 ~naiveandwitty
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=1752ddaf56bd4c8a8465f44858f04619 ~Nichole Wallace
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=d5de5674abfc462ab3faff14fdfb5e35 ~pattimarie
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=a1ddaf06ab8f419ab6399da32cdb112d ~peaceonelove
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=69530966ab7940859f5a894e598ca11f ~Peppermint
http://www.webook.com/poetry.aspx?p=ff32d8bec9f44d1686150ac71c757f92&sit=7f8cac1b4e14419fa6b2d7f41c5b6c5d ~PeteORourke
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