Found Poetry Exercises
Ex 01:
Verbatim Found Poem
Participants
Neal Whitman
/NW
A
Bottle of 2005 Pesquera...
Revel in Unusual Spike: Fibonacci
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
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Exercise 1:
Tanka: Verbatim "Found Poem"
Linda
Papanicolaou
in theory
the Universe
already
replaced by something
inexplicable
The original
quote:
There is a
theory which states that if ever anybody discovers
exactly what the Universe for and why it is here, it
will instantly disappear and be replaced by something
even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another
theory which states that this has already happened.
~Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Linda's
comments:
Not a
particularly good tanka, but trying to keep it
recognizable—this
is more akin to the results I would get with my usual
method of cutting words from print publications. Not
sure what I think—really
preserving the "found word" quality of someone else's
typesetting gives it a certain presence that I think
cyber cut'n'paste doesn't have.
Message #28
of 535 : Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:38 am
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Exercise 1:
Tanka: Verbatim "Found Poem" from Linda
Papanicolaou
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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