Performing writing229
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Write a colossal
poem on the sand of a beach, or in snow in a park.
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Use the windows of a large building as spaces for individual letters or words.
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Broadcast poetry through your local radio or cable TV station.
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Publish a fake poetical manifesto during an election and post it around your city.
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Graffiti a poem on walls or sidewalks, using chalk (hose it off)
or packed snow(allow to melt).
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Bake a cake on which creative text is the icing, and hand it out.
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Write a removable tattoo poem on yourself or others.
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Arrange for the crowd at a sports event to holdup the letters of your poem in rows and columns.
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Photograph,
and then make a montage of, public signage, such as street and hazard signs.
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Use quantities of naturally occurring
objects to form words, such as pebbles,
twigs, ice or grasses.
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Do the same using unnatural objects such as the garbage on a street (recycle this afterwards).
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Project slides or overhead projections of poems onto the walls in your city or campus.
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Bury plant-bulbs in the form
of letters and words of a poem, so that they grow in an unusual place next spring.
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Arrange fora one-line poem to be skywritten.
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Make a poem from the phrases of interviewed people you meet, taking one line from each passer-by.
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M Although entertaining, these games widen your writing’s franchise and audience. There are obvious messages in some of these techniques regarding ecology and conservation. These messages are carried subliminally by the processor made explicit in their wording. Projects such as this are very open to civic and private sponsorship should you wish to make public and conceptual art part of your working life as a writer.
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