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Learning objective: Introduction to Found Poetry
Agenda: 1) “Mike Check” 2) Introduce Found Poetry3) Work on your own Found poem4) Exit Slip
Homework: Poet presentations begin next week.
English 1 CP 3/13/12
Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems.
A pure found poem consists exclusively of outside texts: the words of the poem remain as they were found, with few additions or omissions. Decisions of form, such as where to break a line, are left to the poet.
What is Found Poetry?
Examples of Found poems
Writing this type of poetry is a kind of treasure hunt. Search for interesting scraps of language, then put them together in different ways and see what comes out. Putting seemingly unrelated things together can create a kind of chemical spark, leading to surprising results.
Your found poem will be due by Friday 3/16/12
How to write a found poem
In one sentence, summarize the purpose of today’s lesson.
Be sure to have your name on the paper and turn it in.
Exit Slip