Complete Cleave Collection
Every poem from the Cleave Chain project
This project started when Chalkboard editors Tamyka and Dewi tried to build a double cleave around Christina Rossetti’s “An Echo from Willowwood”, to see what we could make out of it. “Willowwood Reverberations” was the result, and we found the process both fun and satisfying, so we thought we’d see if anyone else was up for it.
It’s been amazing to see the creative responses to this project, given that it had such challenging parameters. Thank you so much for playing, and thanks especially to those who’ve upped the game even further.
Michael Stalcup has kindly created the above image as a full picture of what we’ve accomplished together. Special thanks for that!
Also, below we present the full list of works under this project for your appreciative eyes.
Willowwood reverberations
by Tamyka Bell & Dewi with Christina Rossetti
→ Waterlogged Prayers, by Renae Tobias with Dewi
→ Together, by Indira Reddy with Tamyka Bell
a waking poet
by Dewi with William J Higginson
→ Love in the Morning, by Indira Reddy with Dewi
→ Watersmeet, by Tamyka Bell with Dewi
→ Weeping Planet, by Rahul Misra with Dewi
Letters for Spring
by Dewi with Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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→ Endurance, by Tamyka Bell with Dewi
Autumn
by Dewi & Tamyka Bell with William J Higginson
→ April, a phoenix, by Zev with Dewi & Tamyka Bell
→ Changes, by C. Duhnne with Dewi & Tamyka Bell
→ → little ambitions, by Zev with C. Duhnne
→ → → New Beginnings, by Dewi with Shahzeb Akhter
→ → Steampunked, by Elizabeth Helmich with C. Duhnne
→ April Showers, by Michael Stalcup with Dewi & Tamyka Bell
→ → Wilted Wildflowers, by Tamyka Bell with Michael Stalcup
→ → → Fool’s Game, by Michael Stalcup with Tamyka Bell, Zev., and C. Duhnne
→ → → → Senryus from Babel, by Zev. with Michael Stalcup
→ → → →→ Rapunzel, by Michael Stalcup with Zev
Two Pillars
by Elizabeth Helmich with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Wasteland Apocrypha
by Renae Tobias, Isabella Rathbone Greene, and Heath Houston
Missed the project? Don’t worry, we might bring it back in the future if we have people requesting it ;)
