Oh, hi! I'm Jackie, a writer, improvisor, video editor and general purpose human. I work at a pretty great place called Hello Improv Nerds: I need your help! This is a project I’ve been dreaming of for a long time, I’m calling it Improv Forms in Poetry because that’s exactly what it is. My idea is to take improv forms (Harold, Evente, Monoscene, Le Ronde, possibly a Macroscene and Close Quarters/Vantage Point) and translate those forms to poetic forms. Then I will write a poem in that form!
My goal is twofold: First want to write first in the spirit of that structure and the spirit of good improv - clarity, specifics, agreement, exploration, etc. More specifically for the Harold I’d like to lay out 3 disparate situations or images and then find some way to bring them together in the final clusterfuck of the thing. Second, I want to write in a structure that I think accurately translates the improv form to a poetic one.
So for example, here’s the Harold poetic form I’ve decided on:
Quatrain 1A: A B A B
Quatrain 2A: C D C D
Quatrain 3A: E F E F
4 Lines of free verse
Quatrain 1B: A B A B
Quatrain 2B: C D C D
Quatrain 3B: E F E F
4 Lines of free verse
And then probably a final quatrain or two. I dunno, like third beats I’ll feel it out. And those quatrains might become sextets, I said to no one! I won’t be using a specific meter cause I’ve never been able to write in meter and I don’t really care about it.
Now wait, I said I need help. I do! I need a suggestion, DUH! Please comment on this and leave suggestions or a word or phrase. Like improv, I’ll use the first one I ‘hear’. But not the first response but the first one that strikes me and makes me wanna write the dang thang.
Ok, back to dancing alone in a hotel room in Seattle to Rack City.
Love,
Jackie
