Here you can find out about the poetry project Amanda is currently participating in and about past poetry projects.

Current Poetry Project

You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Notebook

In this year’s spring poetry project, all poets are using the novel Jaws as a source text with which to write poems throughout the month of April. Amanda’s poems are posted on Drowning in Poems.

Past Poetry Projects

The Poeming VI: The Ghost of Grisham

The Poeming VI was an 2021 found poetry project in which poets each used a John Grisham novel as a source text with which to write poems throughout October. Amanda’s source text was The Rogue Lawyer. Their poems can be found on The Rogue Poet.

Stanza of the Lambs

Stanza of the Lambs was a 2021 found poetry project in which poets used the novel Silence of the Lambs as a source text to write poems throughout April. Amanda’s poems are available on Passing Soft Paper.

The Poeming V: The Hex of Harris  

The Poeming V was an October 2020 found poetry project in which poets each used a Charlaine Harris novel as a source text. Amanda’s source text was All the Little Liars. Their poems are on  Liar Liar Poems on Fire.

Jurassic Verse 

Jurassic Verse was a 2020 found poetry project during which all participating poets used the novel Jurassic Park as a source text with which to write poems during the month of April. Amanda’s poems can be read on Poetry, Uh, Finds a Way.

The Poeming IV: The Peril of Pike

The Poeming IV was a 2019 found poetry project in which poets each used a Christopher Pike novel as a source text from which to write a found poem per day for the month of October. Amanda’s source text was Magic Fire, the cover of which they found so creepy they decided to turn it into a little acrylic painting project. Amanda’s poems are on  Of Magic and Fire.

Poems in the Attic 

Poems in the Attic was a found poetry  in April 2019 during which all poets used Flowers in the Attic as a source text from which to write a found poem for each day. Amanda had a hospitalization during this project during, so they only posted a few poems on Antithetic Flowers.

The Poeming III: Menace of McGuire

The Poeming III was an October 2018 found poetry project in which poets each used a Seanan McGuire novel as a source text. Amanda’s source text was Chaos Choreography. Their poems are on Choreographing Chaos.

The Poeming II: Revenge of Rice
The Poeming II was a 2017 found poetry project in which each poet used one of Anne Rice’s novels as a source text from which to write a found poem per day in October. Amanda’s source text was Vittorio the Vampire. Amanda’s poems are posted on Conquering Vampires.

The Poeming 2016

The Poeming 2016 was a found poetry project in which 56 poets each used one of Stephen King’s novels as a source text from which to write a found poem per day for the month of October. Amanda’s source text was The Running Man. Amanda’s poems are available on Running Mad.

Found Poetry Frontiers 

Found Poetry Frontiers (FPF) was an international group of poets writing found poetry as they explored the world through virtual tours from June through October 2015. During one tour, poets used sites and articles about assigned locations, such as Bangalore and Gorizia, as resources for found poetry. During another tour, for 22 weeks, one Poet Guide per week posted information and links connected to their hometown, current city, or another chosen location. Poets then virtually visited these locations and wrote found poems using the material.

Amanda was a Poet Guide for the city she grew up in, Toledo, Ohio, for the week of October 5th. Her tour included the posts Welcome to Toledo, OH, The Glass City, Toledo’s Bodies of Water, and More to See in Toledo.* Her poem “The Secret” was sourced from  a Toledo Blade article about Tony Packo’s secret sauce.

The FPF website is no longer available.

Poetry Month Scouts (PoMoSco)
Poetry Month Scouts was The Found Poetry Review‘s April 2015 National Poetry Month Project. 200 poets completed found poetry prompts in the categories of Remixing, Erasure, Out and About, Conceptual, and Chance Operation. 30 prompts were available while 15 were required for participation.  Each prompt had a different point value attached with the option to earn up to 300 points and the rank “Laureate Scout”. Amanda completed 15 prompts worth 250 points, earning the rank “Bard Scout”. The PoMoSco site is no longer available.

Pulitzer Remix

Pulitzer Remix was a 2013 National Poetry Month Project headed by The Found Poetry Review during which 85 poets from 7 countries created found poems in April using Pulitzer Prize-winning works of fiction. Each poet chose or was assigned one book and was asked to post one poem per day. Amanda chose Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, which they had read as an undergrad.  During the project, more than 2500 poems were posted with over 12,200 comments and 180,000 page views.

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