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Bouncing Off Walls:
some indoor sports for poets
like a Wyoming highway
this page is always under construction


Get Something Going
Free-writing / Variation & Return / Homophonic Translation / Transfusion Poem / Cut-Up  /
Random Generation / How Random Is Random? 

Sound
Slant Rhyme Exercises / From Exercise to Poem / From Idea to Ear & Back Again /
Vowels & Consonants / Vowel Scale / Writing with the Vowel Scale / Braised Rhyme / Rhyming Broken Words /
See also: Homophonic Translation, Total Transfusion, & other suggestions for interacting with texts

Working with Line
Measuring the Line / Alfred Corn's Iambic Pentameter Exercise / Jason & Lefcowitz' Iambic Exercise / Quantitative Syllabics / Counterpointed Free Verse (2 versions) / Fair Flow'r Among the Weeds / Metrical Perverse /

Diction / Image / Metaphor
Grazing for Words / Grazing the Dictionary / Front-Load Your Ears / Swapping Words / See also: the Imitation & Homage Page & the Constrained Writing Page

Imitation / Homage / Interacting with Texts
Diction Cloud / Diction & Phrase / N+7 / Boolean Poetry / Translexical Translation / Total Transfusion / Rhyme Mining / Syntax / A Sweeping Bow / Cut-Up Dialogue / Portrait by Metaphor & Catalogue / Poem of the Ordinary

Writing Operations
Acrostic, Mesostic, & Telestich / Anagram / Lipogram / Erasure / Perverse / Breaking Words / N + 7 / Boolean Poetry / Analytic Dictionary Definitions / Translexical Lexicon / Grid Poems / Circle Poems / Cut-Ups / Pulled Text: Make Your Own System

Collaborations
Coming soon