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Last updated 6/21/07
Poetry Slam Here On the Group Renga Board and Tools for Writing Good Poetry
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Welcome to the Poetry Slam Renga Board of The Actor's Checklist which is linked from our "The Poet, Spoken Word, Performance Poetry, Literary Agent, Poetry Spaces, Poetry Slam Here Link" page. Poetry Slams, simply put, are creative yet competitve events presided over by judges choosen from the audience, to see who has the best stuff. Renga -- the parent of haiku -- is a Japanese imagistic form that originated as a party game in which groups of poets contributed to a single poem.

Here are some tips for posting to the Renga Group Board:

• It's a good idea to enter your username in the "Name" entry are of the chat facility, located at the bottom right hand side of the board.
• Select "Text" from the pull down menu (the default selection is "Freehand"), click on the white area of the groupboard and begin typing.
• When you have completed typing a message hit "Save" and you will be promoted to enter some informatoin like "Title" of entry (which can also be artwork) and username and/or email address.
• When you are ready to post what you have written to the groupboard hit "Load" and a dialog box pops up showing all the entries you have typed in and saved. Yes, you can prepare several message before any of them get posted to the board. You are then allowed to select a posting (text or drawing) to place on the board, which can be repeated as many times as you wish.
• When you load your next entry, the previous one will disappear.
• If you wish to resize the board so that it can float easily around your computer screen hit the "Float" button.

Our board can accomodate up to five participants at this time. We have included text links to writing tools to help you craft better poetry. There is a pull down menu which will allow you to select "text" to write your poems. Most of the tools on this menu are for drawing and art -- and it's fine if you feel like using them too. There is a chat facility in the same space which might be best used to coordinate with other scribes if there is true group collaboration going on. And there is a message board which should prove handy to post completed poems, as well as leave notices to other poets concerning scheduled meetings and other collaborative matters. The possibilities are endless! Have fun!!