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Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Spectacular Pocket Vaccine

Along
my
backbone

a million
bright
stars

blew
me
away.

--Steve Kemple

iPhone Astronomy app puts the heavens in your pocket
Swine flu vaccine trial seeks volunteers
Discovery pair prep for first spacewalk

Posted by Lance Newman at 8:31 AM  

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Recipe

Pick 3 stories from Google News. Using only words that occur in the first 3 paragraphs of each story, make a poem with 3 stanzas, 3 lines each, no more than 60 characters per line. The 3-word title should use a word from each story.

Mechanical aids encouraged. Try one of the Hobarts below if you'd like to work with a block of language that's been randomized or run through an algorithm.

On the same newsday that your 3 stories were published, send your poem to 3by3by3blog (at) gmail (dot) com. Include links to your 3 stories.

3by3by3 is an ongoing experiment. All results are added to the data set.

3by3by3 was launched as a public service by Lance Newman on Tuesday, October 10, 2006, the birthday of the San Diego Union-Tribune -- 138 years of logrolling, pablum, and vigilante screeds.

Hobarts

  • Text Scrambler
  • Poetry Generation Systems
  • Markov Text Synthesizer
  • Bonsai Generator
  • Multibabel
  • Cut Up Machine

    • Character Counter

    This free script provided by JavaScript Kit

    Diners

    About 20 people a day find their way here in one of 3 ways. They know or follow the site and check in for recent posts. They link in from a site like Silliman's blog or Selby's List or one of many poetry zines and blogs. They google a phrase like "draft game rules" or "spanking Britney" or "porn agency" or "american animals" or "monkey material." All are welcome, but the last group is especially well come. On April 15, 2011, the 500th poem was posted and the 20,000th visitor read it.

    Cooks

    • Adam Alva
    • Alana Madison
    • Alice Lander
    • Andrew Bailey
    • Andrew Neuendorf
    • Angela Genusa
    • Ann Heide
    • Annabella Massey
    • Aquila Dunford Wood
    • Ashleagh Hurren
    • Barbara Taylor
    • Becky Schomberg
    • Ben Cartwright
    • Bob Garlitz
    • Bob Marcacci
    • Brendan Lee
    • Carmel Lousada-Stiven
    • Carolyn Zukowski
    • Chaam Zeina
    • Cheyanna Wolf
    • Chris Arnade
    • Chris Wells
    • Cindy Underhill
    • Clare Torbitt
    • Clark Allison
    • Cody Saunders
    • Colin Morgan
    • Daniel Bosch
    • Daniel Donohue
    • David Stinson
    • David T. Snyder
    • Dion R. Farquhar
    • Dnial Barrow
    • Don Wentworth
    • Ed Higgins
    • Edward Cottrell
    • Erin N. Sampson
    • Evie Shockley
    • Francis Raven
    • gabrielle brabazon
    • George Ttoouli
    • Glenn R. Frantz
    • Harriet Whitethorne
    • Heather Cousins
    • Holly Williams
    • Imbruglia Rushlow
    • Ivy Alvarez
    • Jaime Morrison
    • James Belflower
    • Jason Gray
    • Jeff Hansen
    • Jeff Nichols
    • Jennifer Edgecombe
    • Jenny Richards
    • Jensea Storie
    • Jesse Garrick
    • John Tucker
    • Jonas Aneskans
    • Jose Flores
    • Joseph Harrington
    • Kale Humphrey
    • Katie Bowman
    • Katy Acheson
    • Kelly Tapper
    • Kevin Doran
    • Kyle Campbell
    • Lance Newman
    • Laura Beason
    • Lauren Witts
    • Luke Yates
    • Madeline Barnicle
    • Marco Giovenale
    • Mario Puente
    • Martha Deed
    • Martin Stannard
    • Mathew Timmons
    • Megan Crump
    • Melanie Hubbard
    • Melissa Gray
    • Michael Helsem
    • Michael Leong
    • Michael Schiavo
    • Millie Niss
    • Natalie Knight
    • Niall Byrne
    • Nicholas Grider
    • Nicholas Liu
    • Nick Jarvis
    • Pam Thompson
    • Patrick Davies
    • Paul Christian
    • Paula Carino
    • Perdita Stott
    • Rebecca Eddy
    • Richard Mason
    • Robert Woerheide
    • Rupert M Loydell
    • Sabrina Akhtar
    • Scott Keeney
    • Scott Rettberg
    • Scott Stoller
    • Shane Clements
    • Sherre Vernon
    • Simon Turner
    • Steve Donovan
    • Steve Kemple
    • sven staelens
    • Terri Saul
    • Tom Craze
    • Tom Lewis
    • Tom Trusty
    • Toph Church
    • Travis Macdonald
    • Tyler Chadwick
    • Will Scott

    Blue Plate Specials

    Monday: Same first line in all 3 stanzas.

    Tuesday: 3 linked hay(na)ku.

    Wednesday: Wee sestina. Cycle the end words: 123, 312, 231.

    Thursday: 3, 6, and/or 9 syllables per line.

    Friday: Flow.

    Saturday: Syntactically parallel triplets.

    Sunday: Dantesque tercets. Rhyme lines 1 & 3 in each.

    See Here

    • 3x3x3 = 27 (Patrick Davies)
    • A Humument (Tom Phillips)
    • Dada News Daily
    • Flarf (Jacket Magazine)
    • Flarf after Obama? (Gary Sullivan)
    • Foulipo (Sina Queyras)
    • Front Page Stories (Shelley Jackson)
    • Google Sonnets (Greg Perry)
    • Kwansaba (Eugene Redmond Club)
    • New Verse News (James Penha)
    • Newspaper Blackout Poems (Austin Kleon)
    • Oulipo (Drunken Boat)
    • Six-Word Stories (Wired Magazine)
    • stalactite chandelier (Michael Leong)
    • Two Textual Instruments (Turbulence)
    • Your Messages (Lynne Rees and Sarah Salway)

    Reads and Feeds

    • 21 Stars Review
    • Beloit Poetry Journal
    • Big Bridge
    • Blue Collar Review
    • Boston Review
    • City Works Press
    • Drunken Boat
    • Dusie
    • ecopoetics
    • Electronic Literature Organization
    • Electronic Poetry Center
    • Exquisite Corpse
    • Fringe
    • Gnoetry Daily
    • Negative Images
    • nthposition
    • Pemmican
    • Perigee
    • Poetry Hut
    • Pom2
    • Slope
    • Streetnotes
    • Stride Magazine
    • Unlikely Stories
    • Witness

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