NaPoWriMo: April 6: Home

APRIL 2020 NaPoWriMo Poetry eBook

Submissions for April 2020 are over.

Big Bend Community College NaPoWriMo 2020 by William C. Bonaudi Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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From Dawnne Ernette,, Academic Support Division Chair,  Faculty

Found poetry is simply poetry you write yourself based on a snippet of something someone else wrote. You could take a line from the news, a novel, or anywhere, really.

PROMPT: 
FOUND POETRY

What follows is an example of found poetry. The student writer (me) read the following poem by Harold Munro, took the two words "green glass" from the original poem, and then wrote her own poem around those two words. Her poem is from her dark teen angst-ridden years.

So that is how it works! My English 102 students do this and the results are remarkable. I’d love to see something written around “There is a crack in everything/That’s how the light gets in.” ~ Leonard Cohen