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