Found poetry
Objectives:
- Getting in touch with your inner emotions and needs and expressing them.
- Using the conventions of creative writing/literature.
- Expressing yourself in a concise and compact but powerful way.
Preparation:
Tools needed: Magazines, newspapers, ads etc with words and images on them. Glue, scissors, markers, papers.
Description
Cut out poetry:
A discussion about the method and aims of it to convey an environmental message. Poetry and words as a tool of environmental activity.
Participants browse the paper material and start cutting out words that talk to them at the moment. After some time they start organizing the words in to a poem/spell/curse/slogan etc. on the paper. The words are glued to the paper when the order is final. Pens or marker can be used to full missing words, but preferably everything is cut out.
Facilitator reads the text out loud to the creator. The texts are displayed and read by the group.
Reflection: how was the feeling of finding words and working like this? Was it easy to compress a meaning into paper? Were you happy with the result? How could these texts be utilized later? Who should see these texts?
Variations
Black out poetry:
Take one text and a marker. Either black out all irrelevant words and leave only words relevant to your text visible. Or circle the words relevant to your text and combine them with a line. Latter method uses less marker ink.
Collage poetry:
Combine the methods above with cut out images and panels of color.
Random word poetry: as cut out poetry but participants gift each other random words that should be somehow included to their work.
Eavesdropping poetry: listen and write down to strangers' discussion in public (or politicians discussion in TV debate). Use these sentences as a source of your text.
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Resources
These methods among other creative writing methods: https://www.writersdigest.com
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