Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Steal A Line 2nd Drafts/the Found Poem (1st draft)

Please revise and prepare at least one of your Steal a Line poems for workshop. Please put the file in your workshop folder.

The Found Poem. Review the information about Found Poetry. Be familiar with what this is and some samples. (See below).

Class Assignment:
Go online to an online newspaper or magazine. Or choose a book or passage from Google Books or some other text-based source. Choose an article or a text based source. Use the words you find and write them in your journal. Rearrange the words and phrases of the article (you may add or delete, change forms, etc.) to make a new draft of a found poem. You may, of course, combine various sources (poetry, news, fiction, non-fiction, advertisements, scholarly texts, etc.) in a variety of ways for your FOUND POEM.

Having problems? Confused? Here's a link with instructions to help you.

Your first draft is due at the end of class.

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About this course!

This course stresses understanding the characteristics & techniques in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. This course will continue to build on students’ reading and writing skills begun in previous creative writing classes. Readings and discussions of works by major writers in the field will be examined as inspiration and models of fine writing. This educational blog is designed for the use of the students at the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY.