[Newspoetry] newsparty

[Dirk Stratton]

>At 04:38 PM 12/03/2001 -0600, William Gillespie wrote:
>
>  >This was sitting on my computer, it's a group prose poem from a November
>  >meeting at which newspoets gathered to examine the mainstream media...
>  >
>  >Exquisite Corpse written by, in order of appearance (although some
>  >people wrote more than once):
>  >William Gillespie, Mike Lehman, Dirk Stratton, Maiko Covington, Anne
>  >Bargar, Joe Futrelle, Bob Porter
>
>I'd like to know how this WORKS.  How specifically do you compose a "group"
>newspoem?  I suppose there's more than one permissible method....  :)
>
>Oh, and who's Kord?
>
>John
>

John--

and actually the key word should be: PLAYS--because such writing is 
as much about the amusement factor as anything. a party game. like 
Twister, but without the large colored dots or the vegetable oil. not 
much work involved at all.

--dirk