Found Poetry Exercises
Ex 01: Verbatim Found Poem
Participants
Neal
Whitman /NW
A
Bottle of 2005 Pesquera...
Shanna
Baldwin Moore /SBM
Linda
Papanicolau /LP
Tanka: on Douglas Adams Text
Haiku and Senryu from a Spam List
Four Haiga Found Poems from the L. L. Bean 2012 Spring Catalogue
Karina
Klesko /KK
Memoirs of a Southern
Woman
Bernard
Gieske /BG
John
Daleiden /JD
Senyru from a Spam List
Judith
Gorgone /JG
Untitled:
in a letter from a Korean friend
Craig Tigerman
/CT
A Dozen Favorites: Quatrain
Craig Tigerman
/CT
A Dozen Favorites: Quatrain
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Karina Klesko: Exercise 1: Verbatim "Found Poem": Free Verse
Memoirs of a Southern Woman
Chapter I: In
Ante-Bellum Days
Mother was a woman of beauty
And unusual courage.
She needed it as she said farewell
to her three soldier sons,
and bade them do their duty.
But she had higher attributes than courage -
the charity which thinketh no evil,
the love which includes the sinning
and the sinless,
recognizing the stumbling blocks
that beset our path
All the beautiful things
appealed to her, flowers
and poetry.
a link
connecting us
To a far-off period,
binding the present
to the past, the rare
courtesy of her manner,
told of gentle breeding,
combined
with slight formality,
which, while very kindly,
precluded
any familiarity.
As I
have looked
at her lovely old face
I have thought her
the embodiment
of all the virtues of her race.
In her ninetieth year
she joined the great caravan, and now,
with the husband of her youth,
as much of her as could die
awaits the resurrection,
at St. John's cemetery.
Karina Klesko:
Free Verse: Memoirs of a Southern Woman: Chapter I: in
Ante-Bellum Days by
Mary Polk Branch
The original source is available at this link:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/branch/branch.html
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Exercise 1:
Memoirs of a Southern
Woman:
Free Verse: Verbatim Found Poem from Karina Klesko
Definition Material:
How to create a Verbatim poem:
Take an excerpt from a written or verbal source and arrange it,
word for word, into lines. The source can be anything except an
existing poem or lyrics. Give details of the source so we know
it's real and can credit the source accurately.
Tips:
You may add punctuation where the original source is
unpunctuated (i.e. spoken or graphical sources).
If the excerpt contains private or personal information it is
better to disguise it (i.e. change names).
The word order should be as you found it, but you may exercise
poetic license in matters of style. For example:
- invent your
own title
- choose
whether or not to write numerals ('21') and symbols
('$') as words ('twenty-one', 'dollars')
- write
quotations in italics or "speech marks"
- choose
whether or not to capitalize each line beginning (some
do, most don't)
Posting / Submission:
Post your poem to the foundpoetryforum: Select Post at the
link below:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foundpoetrystudio/
Subject line: Verbatim + Author Name
For Example: Verbatim Joe Writer
Resources:
Verbatim: The Rules:
http://verbatimpoetry.blogspot.com/p/rules.html
Available in the foundpoetryforum Links:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foundpoetrystudio/links/VERBATIM__RULES_001326495518/
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