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: Verbatim "Found Poem"
Senyru from a Spam List
John Daleiden
Senryu from a Spam List
Black
Lizard*
in the apple orchard
ladies scream
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breaking
news
lists your name on TV--
FBI reward
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on my iPhone
Amazon ladies photos
Grassroots Promotions
Author Note:
All the words or portions of words in these senryu can be
found on the Spam List below.
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Sources:
Linda
Papanicolaou posted a Spam list in the foundpoetrystudio and
created haiku / senyru from words found on the listthese
words are highlighted in yellow. Linda did not use every
word on the listrather the list was a resource of possible
words that might be used in a "found poem". This
method of creation is very much like the process of creating
a collage. The list is posted below.
John Daleiden
used the same Spam list to create the three senryu posted
above. John used only words or parts of words on the list to
create the senryu.
The Spam List:
Author
note on Black Lizard*
The
significance of Black Lizard* needs explanation.
Black Lizard was
a publisher imprint during the 1980s. A division of
the Creative Arts Book Company of Berkeley, California,
Black Lizard specialized in presenting rediscovered
forgotten classic crime fiction writers and novels from the
decades between the 1930s and the 1960s. Creative Arts Book
Company was founded by Don Ellis in 1966. Creative Arts
filed for bankruptcy protection in 2003 ["Black Lizard":
Wikipedia].
A film:
Black Lizard (' Kurotokage) is a 1968 Japanese
detective film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is based
on a 1934 novel by Edogawa Rampo and its theatrical
adaptation by Yukio Mishima, who, at the time, was the lover
of Akihiro Maruyama, the actor who plays the notorious
female criminal "Black Lizard" in drag. The film's
protagonist is Kogoro Akechi, a brilliant detective
patterned on Sherlock Holmes who appears in several stories
by Edogawa Rampo and is a fixture in Japanese popular
culture. The film currently has no official DVD release, and
copies of the film are extremely difficult to find, but it
has gained a cult following and is highly regarded by
devotees of "kitsch" and "campy" films ["Black Lizard
(film)":
Wikipedia].
The novel Black Lizard has been published in English
by Kurodahan Press in a dual edition with The Beast in the
Shadow (aka Inju)
Spam List poem as
a "found poem":
From
Poets.org:
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.
From
Wikipedia:
Found poetry
is a type of poetry created by
taking words,
phrases, and sometimes whole passages
from other
sources and re-framing them as poetry by making changes
in spacing and/or lines (and consequently meaning), or
by altering the text by additions and/or deletions.
The resulting poem can be defined as either treated:
changed in a profound and systematic manner; or
untreated: virtually unchanged from the order, syntax
and meaning of the original.
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Exercise 1: Verbatim "Found Poem"
Senyru from a Spam List: John Daleiden
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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