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[novapsyche]

Thirteen Blackbirds meets tomorrow! What better way to celebrate the holiday? If you're in the Ypsi/Ann Arbor area, you are invited. Email me at novapsyche at livejournal dot com for directions.

Our assignment is to write a matrix poem, a 4 x 4 word construction fleshed into lines. Read the rules of construction here.

My suggestion on how to acquire your own matrix: Take 2 or 3 minutes and listen to the conversation or ambient sounds around you. If you are in a quiet area, turn on a radio or other media device. Listen for certain words that impress upon you, are interesting to you, that you feel would be kind of fun to use in a poem. Write these words in four lines, four words each. This is your matrix.

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[fountaingirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for putting this up, sounds like a lot of fun.

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[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Certainly! It's a silly little exercise I thought up about two years ago. It was interesting to just get a different perspective of where poems might come from, and how the mind makes sense of words depending on how they're situated.