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Lit Lit: Sillyloquy
I’ve decided to take next steps (and avoid copyright infringement) and call these word substitutions Lit Lit instead of the trademarked Mad Libs. I’m starting with a series of soliloquies, sillyloquies (if you will). This one takes one of Billy Shakes’s most-memorized passages (I had to recite it in high school).
By Harper Lewis 4 months ago in Writers
You Had To Be There- The Sea of Orange and Blue.
You had to be there. The LIRR from JFK to Manhattan, the guard shouting “tickets please” and clipping your ticket like you where on the orient express in the 40’s.
By H J Myers4 months ago in Writers
Lit Lit 4
Welcome to my Wednesday think-about-something-other-than-challenge-results post! Apparently, I'm two days early for challenge results (I don't have a horse in this race). Oops! I loved Mad Libs when I was a child and love them even more as an adult. I make my own now, from great works of literature in the public domain (can't afford to face a lawsuit from the Steinbeck family).
By Harper Lewis 4 months ago in Writers
Lit Lit 3 Results
It's time for the results of our Mad Libs from last week. The poem I used for this was Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" (one of two villanelles that don't make me crazy, and, yes, the other one is "Do Not Go Gentle . . ."). Why do villanelles make me crazy? Too much end rhyme and too much repetition, usually of ideas that don't bear repeating. However, for a Mad Libs, I though a (good) villanelle would be fun. Instead of having participants fill in a jillion verbs, I simply conjugated the ones I asked for in the refrain.
By Harper Lewis 4 months ago in Writers
Memorial Day
Memories of the past and present elaboration on those who have served meritoriously in an orderly and rational way in a way for our
By Mark Graham4 months ago in Writers
Drops
An announcement! I've come up with a quirky little idea of which I've seen a version produced by smaller, sometimes vintage or upcycling stores who want to promote a particular product that is limited-edition or unique enough to not last long.
By Ruby Red4 months ago in Writers
Eliot. Top Story - May 2026.
Once upon a time before everyone had access to the interwebs at their fingertips, there were these things called books. Further, the Everyman Classics were handy pocket books, not to be confused with pocketbooks, which are handbags.
By Harper Lewis 4 months ago in Writers
Why I Disappeared
It’s funny how one small loss can make you question something you once loved so deeply. I know I disappeared for almost two weeks.
By Aarsh Malik4 months ago in Writers
SEQUENTIA
Poets logo Main navigation Home Top Stories Latest Stories Shayan Khan Sequentia Mankind reenacts Edward Swafford By
By Discipline 4 months ago in Writers
The Unacknowledged Writer
Introduction I think everyone would love to be a successful writer and live off the proceeds of their book sales, but we all know that very few reach that position.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 months ago in Writers
Candide, Can Didn't
There have been times in my life when I have pondered which book or author has left the biggest impression on me. I have often been without an answer until I realized it came from a book, or rather a novella, I read in my junior high years. No, it wasn’t for a book report. I picked it up at a sale one day, purchased it, and read it in a day.
By Alexandra Grant5 months ago in Writers
Catharsis
Many readers and writers enjoy horror as a cathartic experience. My guess is that they’ve had less genuine horror in their lives than I have. Fear is not my friend, and I will not recreationally seek it. Does this mean catharsis is absent from my experience? Absolutely not—it just means that I find catharsis elsewhere.
By Harper Lewis 5 months ago in Writers