What haven't you tried in poetry?

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With regards to both reading and writing poetry, what are things you haven't tried but would like to try?

Bonus: what are some things you *have* tried and enjoyed? Let us know so others can add them to their own to-try lists!
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Here are some of mine (I'll update this as I go along)
Reading:
- Poetry books where the poems form interconnected stories, like Jeannine Hall Gailey's books
- A whole poetry collection/ book/ chapbook by a Southeast Asian poet

Writing:
- A poetry book where the poems form interconnected stories
- A choose-your-own adventure poem

Things I have tried:
- Reading from a literary magazine
- Writing a poem in the boxes of an old empty calendar
- Reading poetry set to comic panels (e.g. Grant Snider's poems)
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Reading:
- A visual poem

Writing:
- A poetry book where the poems form interconnected stories
- A poem in the boxes of an old empty calendar
- A visual poem

Things I have tried:
- Reading from a literary magazine
- Reading poetry set to comic panels
- Poetry books where the poems form interconnected stories (Nikita Gill)




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I would love to try visual poetry or any different kind of poetry which kind "jumps out" of its media. I already tried combining one of my poems with junk journaling and I really enjoyed the whole messy process! It was really great. I also tried writing sailor song for our last year's scout camp (long story, but it went pretty well) and I would like to try writing poems inspired by traditional songs/poetry of my country. We have a HUGE bunch of old sayings, folk songs, riddles, stories told in verse and I'm sure that I know only the top of iceberg at this point. Oh, and however cliché might prophecies in books be, I had a huge fun writing those.
Not to be person who just copies what other have said, but writing poetry into calendar or choose-your-own adventure poems sound like fantastic ideas and I'm definitely putting them in my Poetry Writing Wishlist lol.
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Never saw this thread, but love the concept! There's some creative ideas here! (@Liminality I love your calendar poem idea! That sounds super cool!)


Reading
I have a bunch of people on my "want to read" list that have been contributors to COOP that have their own books published, would love to read some more international voices too.

Writing
Poem with Internal Hyperlinks - Saw someone write a poem in NaPo once that had interspersed links throughout the poem to lines for other poems they had written in other years, I thought it was a really neat form to do on a digital platform. I wrote a kind of similar concept poem (here at the end of my "Spam Poetry NaPo Thread" but it just links to random other stuff on YWS rather than my own poetry and is more of a "joke" than an earnest poem in itself - so that's something on my poetry bucket list I'd really like to attempt.

Puzzle Poems - I would love to do some poems in the form of puzzles - like a sudoku square, or a chessboard, or a word-search...

Unfolding Poem - I love origami poems, and have done a couple poems that are written on origami pieces (boats, cranes, airplanes etc) I would love to do a poem that unfolds that is maybe presented in like a video / gif format? (I am imagining a paper fortune teller, that unfolds to more lines of different content)

Things I've Tried -
A concept I really love that I'd like to try again is an extended "acrostic" or column poem (like this one I did here that is inspired by the form Anthony Cody uses in his poetry book "borderland apocrypha" I really like this style. I honestly don't know what to call this, but it uses one line as the basis for the rest of the poem that comes out underneath in columns and there are many ways to format or play with it.

I also have attempted a few "Word Web" poems ... and would like to try that again sometime!

Has been a while since I did a video poem concept, but would like to try that again sometime too.

Okay and poems in the form of chickens is also always a good idea!
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reading
⊹ we have been slacking when it comes to reading 'classic' poets and definitely need to check out some more structured poetry!
⊹ we are eastern european, yet we barely read slavic poets!!! we need to fix that immediately!!!

writing
⊹ we've been thinking about a fibonacci poem -- syllable count 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and so forth.
⊹ we'd also like to try to do more visual poetry!!! it's difficult to work google doc formatting ^^''

things we've tried
⊹ a poetry 'book' based on each constellation in the northern sky!
⊹ we've also been experimenting with different art pieces, writing about paintings we see at local museums!
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