Found Poetry

1. Found Poetry

2. Found Poetry Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and/or lines (and consequently meaning), or by altering the text by additions and/or deletions.

3. Found Poetry • The resulting poem can be defined as either: • treated: changed in a thoughtful and systematic manner or • untreated: virtually unchanged from the order, syntax and meaning of the original.

4. Found Poetry Listen to a found poem by Naomi Shihab Nye.

5. Found Poetry • Now it’s time to create your own found poem! • Your table group will go to an assigned location on campus. • Sit and listen for 20 mins and try to write down everything you hear other people say • (Be sure to introduce yourself to the teacher and tell him/her why you’re there if you’re in a classroom!). • After time is upcome back to the classroom.

6. Found Poetry Share what you’ve written with your group. Highlight the best five lines you heard and share again. As a group, decide how to organize your highlighted lines into a found poem. It can be treated or untreated. Write your final draft on large paper to share with the class.