Over the Horizon
A look back at the Passing Pantoums project
We weren’t sure how things would go. Pantoums are already a tricky form; would adding a collaborative requirement on top be too much for people?
Needless to say, I was surprised and delighted by the results! Ten different authors penned twenty new pantoums, each “passing” at least one other pantoum through a shared pair of lines.
Tamyka even managed to incorporate lines from three separate pantoums into The winter of us. And Dewi’s Gone Days managed to pass four pantoums, pulling line pairs from two pantoums to start with, then lending its lines to two more pantoums.
Below you can see a map of which pantoums shared lines with each other; the original pantoum is higher, the borrower below. The pantoums in grey are those written before and outside of this project.
Thank you to all who contributed! It was fun to see a mix of familiar faces and new authors out there on the stanzaic seas. Here is the complete list of the Passing Pantoums (also organized by poet below and by date here).
By title
- A painting by Ashwini (passing Ram’s “Harmony in cacophony”)
- Beautiful Cacophony by Michael Stalcup (passing Rachel B. Baxter’s “Pantoum for the End of Summer”)
- Child Inside by Rachel B. Baxter (passing Tamyka Bell’s “Forbidden”)
- Data Day Tides Gone By by Kittie Phoenix (passing Tamyka Bell’s “Nucleus”)
- Desire and wisdom by Ram (passing Tamyka Bell’s “Forbidden”)
- Doubts by Indira Reddy (passing Tamyka Bell’s “Slay”)
- ends of the line by the alleged kat (passing Thu Uyên’s “where lands end” and Dewi’s “Fair She”)
- Fear by Ram (passing Indira Reddy’s “Doubts”)
- Forbidden by Tamyka Bell (passing Rachel B. Baxter’s “Pantoum for the End of Summer”)
- Gone Days by Dewi (passing Tamyka Bell’s “Slay” and “Possession”)
- Harmony in cacophony by Ram (passing Michael Stalcup’s “Beautiful Cacophony”)
- Like a masterpiece by Ram (passing Tamyka Bell’s “Slay”)
- Love of the Sidhe by Indira Reddy (passing Dewi’s “Gone Days”)
- Miracle of hope by Ram (passing Rachel B. Baxter’s “Child Inside”)
- Nucleus by Tamyka Bell (passing Brian Woo’s “Back”)
- Pain’s Twisted Tale by Ram (passing Tamyka Bell’s “Around the block”)
- Running Red by Carolyn None (passing Dewi’s “Gone Days”)
- The winter of us by Tamyka Bell (passing Ram’s “Fear”, Indira Reddy’s “Doubts”, and Carolyn None’s “Running Red”)
- Writing’s Wrong Pain (Part 1?) by Kittie Phoenix (passing Ram’s “Pain’s Twisted Tale” at the same lines borrowed from Tamyka’s “Around the block”)
- Writing’s Wrong Pain, Part 2 by Kittie Phoenix (passing Dewi’s “Fair She”)
By poet
- Ashwini: A painting
- Carolyn None: Running Red
- Dewi: Gone Days
- Indira Reddy: Doubts, Love of the Sidhe
- Kittie Phoenix: Data Day Tides Gone By, Writing’s Wrong Pain (Part 1?), Writing’s Wrong Pain, Part 2
- Michael Stalcup: Beautiful Cacophony
- Rachel B. Baxter: Child Inside
- Ram: Pain’s Twisted Tale, Fear, Desire and wisdom, Harmony in cacophony, Like a masterpiece, Miracle of hope
- Tamyka Bell: Forbidden, Nucleus, The winter of us
- the alleged kat: ends of the line
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