Yesterday my friend Liz and I were on the radio to talk about and read a few sonnets that she and I have been writing, mostly as a game for each other, over the past couple of years.
I think the conversation was pretty entertaining, and I think the sonnets have turned out well. If you'd like to hear the program, I'm pretty sure you can stream it until next Wednesday morning (Oct. 26), when it'll be replaced by the new week's program.
Follow this link, then follow these instructions:
Click on the "stream" button next to the "Proximate Blues / Writers@WRUV" segment of the Wednesday schedule. Once the stream starts running, our interview is about one hour and five minutes (1:05) into the program. It lasts about 45 minutes.
Let me know what you think, if you get a chance to listen to it.
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That was highly entertaining! An almost Oulipian constraint, with beautiful/sharp/funny results. I just wish I could've replayed the poems to savor them fully. I hope you publish them someday!
I think it really goes beyond mere game and into Oulipo territory when the other person takes the first sonnet and writes the "opposite" poem with (more or less) the same rhyme words.
I'm really glad you found it entertaining!
Shades of Elm City Jams: constrained, collaborative, and a link between Halliburton and Bert n' Ernie.
Speaking of ECJ shades, have you seen this?
Also, if Chris Sims were writing "Blasphemy," that ROM would have been a Space Knight, wouldn't it?
Tom O'Donnell in McSweeney's! Thanks for that heart-cheering link. A stalwart champion of the late ECJ, no doubt.
I have another cheering (if not, perhaps, heart-cheering) link for you, amigo.
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