A SUM OF OUR POETIC PARTS: VOLUME 3 is now available! It includes 21 poems created with the help of 78 participants & their 116 donated words. These poems were created between September 2023 and May 2024. Most have been shared on social media in past months, but ASOOPP3 gives them a fitting home & insight into their many features & origins! Lots of fun, poetic experiments can be found in here! Participants include long-time contributors, newcomers and one poem was co-authored by myself and one other person! This project was self-published in June 2024.

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SCREAMWORDK contains 8 Halloween/autumn/skeeeeeery/sweater-weathery/cool-as-a-midnight-breeze poems written between 2021-2023. Each poem contains elements of the 8 poems in TEAMWORDK (2021). 58 contributors provided the 76 items (72 words, a theme, a title, a photo, and 1 person selected which words I had to use for a certain poem!) that went into these works. The 8th poem was also read aloud by me and set to a soundscape I created with found sounds and instruments. This project was released on November 3, 2023.

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– Listen to “Possession Blues” read aloud with a chilling soundscape! 

REUNION FRUIT SYNERGY is a celebration of 5 years of donated words poetry by way of 5 new, collaborative poems! 82 contributors supplied the 82 words I implemented into these new poems. Other fun additions such as a donated title, theme, original line, artwork chosen by a poll (and more!) mirror some of the items submitted to these projects over the last several years! This collection also shares some of the thrilling data from donated words poetry projects from 2018-2023 such as… 302 people have donated 701 words to these experiences! And there has been so much more and it has been a real treasure to host these poems and projects! Here’s to 5 great years of collaboration and it will be interesting to see what’s next! This project was released on May 5, 2023.

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A SUM OF OUR POETIC PARTS: VOLUME 2 is here! this is my latest poetry project with a considerable joint effort! This collection features 13 poems that incorporate donated words and more by so many collaborators! Among the poems in ASOOPP2 are 4 Exquisite Corpse poems, 2 poems with words sent to me by people who have not previously participated and an ekphrastic poem! These donated words poems were written between June 2022 and March 2023. This project was self-published in March 2023.

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