i found this book in the free box at a garage sale. i've only used a few pages, mostly from the beginning of the book. i'm hoping to flip through it again and maybe write some more poems. 
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- sammy
- in this blog i will create a found poem from another piece of writing; be it book, newspaper, magazine, receipt, or what have you. i hope to show readers that poetry can be found anywhere.
Wonderful piece, I don't know though if I would qualify this as "found" poetry. I am interested in your method of choosing or starting your poems.
ReplyDeletethe definition of found poetry has always been vague to me, i think it can mean a myriad of different things. i've heard of "found poetry" used as a classroom exercise in which students rearrange lines from famous poems. my friends and i also used to rearrange those word magnets on refrigerators at parties and we'd call those found poems.
ReplyDeletei'm not sure if my method is original, but what i do is find books, magazines, newspapers and cut out various words or phrases that inspire me. sometimes i will find one phrase and build a poem entirely off of that. other times, i just cut out a bunch of stuff that strikes me and format me into a coherent piece. i would consider this to be found poetry. but if you can think of a better term for it, i'd be very interested in knowing.
and thank you for your compliment!