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"A poem is a communication from one soul to another that makes one or both hearts sing."
Walter Mayes
"Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me."
Sigmund Freud
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Collaborate & Listen: Part 2 – Collaborations with Others Outside of the Written/Verbal Arts
You take the hand extended to you. You walk for a moment then begin a dance. Occasionally, you trip or step on a toe, but you laugh and continue on until you’ve finished your collaboration.
Last month I talked about poetry collaboration. This month I want to discuss how to expand on this idea and collaborate poetically with those outside of the written/verbal arts.
Other Areas of the Arts Collaboration
I mentioned this cross collaboration in the last newsletter, but wanted to remind you of some of the ways already mentioned before sharing more.
-Art (https://video.newyorker.com/watch/poetry-paint-toronto-canada-cleo-wade-poet-bar...)
-Photography (https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-art-of-collaboration-poetry-and-photography/)
-Film (https://vimeo.com/129687793, https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/news/students-work-poets-collaborative-film-project)
-Dance (https://dancingwordsblog.wordpress.com/dance-poetry-films/morbleu/)
More Arts Collaborations:
These will be my suggestions based on my experiences and quick brainstorming while I write this, so only take these as idea starters. The sky is the limit here.
-Embroidery: My parents had an embroidery business and I embroidered one of my poems for a charity auction once.
-Painters & other 2-D visual artists
-Crafters & woodworkers & sculptors
-Jewelers & other artisans
-The possibilities are endless!
Outside of the Arts Collaboration
Here’s where you try to collaborate with those outside of the arts. Some examples:
-Poetry sharing: Coffee businesses and bars are notorious about collaborating with open mic night events for sharing poetry and other auditory arts with others. What other ways can you collaborate with a business?
-Poetry ideas: You could collaborate with people in any number of various fields of work. Writers have been doing this for millennia to bring accuracy to their fiction and non-fiction. I mentioned you can use it for an idea generator, but this is as limitless as your imagination. Perhaps you can think about how you can help them with poetry as well as how you can be helped writing your poetry.
-I donated some poetry to be used in a book to benefit a church.
-Poetry reading: Very similar to the poetry sharing above but in this case I mean both your own poetry as well as that of others. You can share at assisted living facilities, libraries, schools, etc.
-Community collaboration: Your community may have several events a year or even a month. How can you collaborate with poetry?
A Couple of Poetry Forms to Have Fun With
Swap Quatrain
The swap quatrain is a more recent (invented within the past 25 years or so) poetry form and it is the brain child of Lorraine M. Kanter.
MUST HAVES
--Line count: Four.
--Rhyme: AABB; CCDD, EEFF (continued for as many stanzas as you choose for your poem). NOTE: Do not repeat the same rhyme later in the same poem—new rhyme for each couplet.
--Every stanza’s first line is split in two and switched to create the forth line of the stanza. Example: If your first line is “Your tender touch, your lips on mine” then the fourth and final line of that stanza would be “Your lips on mine, your tender touch.” Hence the swap that takes place in the swap quatrain.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Topic.
--Number of stanza.
--Meter.
The Pictorial
This poem is also a more recent creation. This one was invented by Emily Romano.
MUST HAVES
--Line count: Three.
--Five words (or less) in each line.
--Rhymes, but you choose if it is internal or end rhyme.
--Poem is a shape poem and must be written in some sort of step formation, preferably one the follows what is said in the poem in some way.
Example Second
Number Line
One Example
Two Example
Number Line
Example Second
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Topic.
--Meter: Yes or no—it’s up to you, although may be difficult for this form.
--Number of stanzas.
--Rhyme: You get to choose if it’s end or internal rhyme.
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Comments on last month's newsletter:
From: Monty 
Comment: You touched on something that I think happens without our knowledge in many cases, a song or a poem we have read is in some cases a silent collaborator.
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