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poetry

Poetry from My Mac

Mona Alvarado Frazier
poetweet screen shot
poetweet screenshot

I love poetry. I like reading lines from other people’s minds, all the time.

Today, I learned of poetry from a computer’s mind. Yes, an inanimate object making animate words into lines of a poem.

Poetweet searches through your original tweets and transforms them into computer-generated poetry. The site says they “track the data of your inspiration” and proceed to “analyzing your deepest thoughts.”

All you have to do is enter your Twitter handle, choose between a sonnet (14 lines), a rondel (French lyric of 2 stanzas of 4 lines, last one of 5), or the esoteric indiriso.

Isidro Iturat, a professor of Spanish literature from Buenos Aires created this new standard. Indriso is a poem formed by two terzains and two one-line stanzas (3-3-1-1), with free use of the number of syllables in its verses.

Here’s an example of my Twitter generated indiriso:

Black Heart

My Heart & Other Black Holes
River quality with camera-less
New wave of female-led titles

You Keep Writing | Write to Done
— And Still Do #librarians
Now That I No Longer Teach in One

Of their local public libraries

Your Manuscript’s New Best Friend

A rondel:

It’s free
by AlvaradoFrazier

You win & Merry Christmas!
Dead & she is the only suspect.
My Town at Christmas
Publishing Internship Project

Newly Diagnosed HER2 Metastatic |
Yglesias, Algonquin
Are only cautiously optimistic.
There are new mountains. U Le Guin

Splendor for next-generation

Art World Gender Imbalance

The Irish Mexican Connection

Allen to Write and Direct TV Series

Violence, drugs, and depression.

A sonnet:

Best Friend
by AlvaradoFrazier

Tex-Mex and BBQ culture
— And Still #librarians
Women painted out of the picture
YA Books Featuring American Indians

Committed to agents or publishers
local public libraries
Butt Calisthenics for Writers
Serros: Author, Poet, Friend

| Wise Ink’s Blog for Indie Authors
Black Authors and Self-Publishing
Latina producers, directors

Splendor for next-generation
Webinar Female firefighters and breast cancer
The author platform. It’s FEAR.”

Well, these poems may not make much sense, but the poems tell a story, my Twitter story. Now I love my Mac even more.

Have a great weekend, create poetry and have some fun.

Writing

A Slice of A Writer’s Life

Mona Alvarado Frazier

 

I Became A Writer-Unknown Mami
I Became A Writer-Unknown Mami

To my post title I could have added:

An Unpublished Writer’s Life

But too many words for a heading.

Most writers, like 95%, have another life besides writing: kids, pets, parents, cleaning, carpooling…

It can get kinda of like ….”What’s it all about, Alfie?” 

The writing happens before the other stuff gets started, which means I write in the early morning.

I’m lucky that I only have one big kid left in the home, so I get in more writing/musing time than most moms.

And sometimes, I just don’t feel like putting my one-hour self-imposed writing requirement (FB, Twitter, email do not count).

When I get in that Alfie state I look at my most ‘pinned’ graphic over on Pinterest, under “Inspiration to Write.”

This graphic is from the very witty, Unknown Mami, Claudya Martinez. Currently, it is at 310 pins and counting.

I’ve reviewed my “Inspiration to Write” pins at least 100 times. Keeps me going.

So do the ‘goodies’ that come from my writing life: nice blog post comments, critiques that go great (no red marks, hardly, on my papers), and my ‘bestest’ yet:

THE AMAZON BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AWARD QUARTERFINALS

If I had a sound, for the above remark, it would be the booming movie premiere voice guy.

http://amzn.to/1kDIjNW Graphic by DigitalProduct
http://amzn.to/1kDIjNW Graphic by DigitalProduct

The free 17-page excerpt on my Amazon page has received two reviews, with a few more listed on my Facebook page and one on my LinkedIn page:

 

“Your excerpt is very well written and I love the figurative language you used. Lines I love: “Long narrow dirt rows with tiny roads of deep green leaves spin by in a brown arc like long legs running…I also loved the haunting quality of the narrator’s voice. ..Great title. It reminds me of Alice Walker’s “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens.” Virginia Alanis

This review didn’t just make my day, it made three days.

And another bonus, from the ABNA news,

The M2the5th Google+ Community (Mostly Multicultural Mysteries, Memoir, and Myth) will host a Twitter Interview

on Saturday, May 10, 2014, at 9 Pacific time.

I hope I can meet you on Twitter and have a good discussion on writing, inspiration, and all that ‘writerly’ stuff.

Until then, keep reading, writing, and living well.