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Today’s LittleNip:
Hope smiles from the threshold of the new year to come, whispering, “It will be happier."
—Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Welcome back to Judy Kleinberg, who is starting the year off for us with her out-of-the-box “found” poetry, and many thanks to her for that! Medusa encourages us all to think and write in unusual pathways this year. I suspect that’s the only way we’re going to work ourselves out of this mess we’re in….
Here's a bit of process info: These visual poems are from an ongoing series of collages (2600+) built from phrases created unintentionally through the accident of magazine page design. Each contiguous fragment of text (roughly the equivalent of a poetic line) is entirely removed from its original sense and syntax. The text is not altered (except for the occasional deletion of prefixes, suffixes, or punctuation) and includes no attributable phrases. The lines of each collage are, in most cases, sourced from different magazines. (FYI, the odd capping of the self-titled pieces reflects the actual found text.) See www.writersdigest.com/personal-updates/found-poetry-converting-or-stealing-the-words-of-others AND/OR poets.org/glossary/found-poem for more about the Found poem.
An artist, poet, and freelance writer, J.I. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, and on Instagram (@jikleinberg). Her visual poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide, including Atlas & Alice, Diagram, Explorations in Media Ecology, Full Bleed, The Indianapolis Review, and Otoliths. Her visual poems were featured in a solo exhibit, orchestrated light, at Peter Miller Books, Seattle, Washington, in May 2022, and displayed at the Skagit River Poetry Festival in October 2022. See more of Judy at chocolateisaverb.wordpress.com.
Again, thanks to Judy for her work today, and here’s wishing all of you the best of adventures for 2023!
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