The Writer's Hood

Auden Hyperpoem

In 2001, we launched the first hyperpoem on these pages, a set of poems based on Yeat's Sailing to Byzantium and sponsored by Gandy River, a forum.

In 2002, we published the longest of the hyperpoems, a set of poems using Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, sponsored by Wild Poetry, another forum.

Now at long last we post for your reading pleasure our third, poems using WH Auden's In Memory of W. B. Yeats as the pad.  The poems were a contest in the now defunct zine, Writer's Hood.  The winners were published in the December issue along with a poem by the judge, Thomas Fortenberry.  Winners were:

First:  Laurel Dodge (nominated for a Pushcart)

Second:  Maryann Hazen-Stearns (she has another you get to find)

Third:  MJM (nominated for a Pushcart and the Hood Poem of the Year)

Follow the link above to the Auden and from there to the poems submitted.  The idea of a hyperpoem is to discover the poems through the main work, therefore I've only linked to the winners and judge. 

The other poets include:  Lisa, Arthur, Barbara, Bren, Byron, Christopher, Dane, Frank F (2), Frank A, Gary, Geertjan, MA, Ivan, Judy (new), Khizra, Laurie, Les, Leslie (2), Dan, Paul, Ella (5), Randy, Rick, Sharon, Silvia (3), Suzanne, Terrie, Wynne, Rose and Wilma.

Enjoy and if you wish to be part of any of the hyperpoems, please email me.

Gary Blankenship

Poetry editor at the Hood

and editor of MindFire Renewed

(in hiatus)

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New Year's Day 2008:  I have the pleasure of adding a poem by Wild's

Judy Thompson.