Get out of your rut. Let's shake up the world of poetry today. Don't box yourself in with free verse. Where's the challenge in that? You can write sonnets, villanelles, pantoums, concrete poems, or even create found poems.
Today, for my class I got to create a found poem. These are so much fun. It's like geocaching words. You start scratching away lines, and all of a sudden a new creation is formed. Maybe it's just because I love puzzles, but I loved pulling away themes to make space for a new theme.
It allows access to someone else's vocabulary. So often I feel stipulated by my generations vernacular, but this allows me to pick someone else's brain (or maybe just their words) and find my own meaning overlapping space and punctuation.
Hufflepuffs may be prone to doing these kind of poems. So, if you do these, do you like cutting out poems? Or blacking out the text? There are so many options. I've even seen it where you cut out spaces of subsequent text to overlay and create something new. And don't worry, it's not rude to do this to other people's writing. I was kind of scared of that, but I'd be fine with other people doing it to my work. And poets like Annie Dillard have entire poetry books of found poems. |