![]() ![]() ![]() It can be about something as broad as animals or as specific as the missing Bronx Zoo cobra. Your poem can be on any topic or theme you like. But the nine others we liked best chose much more recent work, and that’s fine too. It’s true you can choose any Times article ever published for this challenge, and one of our favorites last year used an article from 1892. How do I find a focus for my poem with the entire New York Times to choose from? The poems that start off being about one thing and end up being about another the poems that comment on the article they came from the poems that smash together unlikely words and images from several sources to In general, careful attention to choosing and combining language impresses us most - the thoughtful choices that make us see something in a new way. Our criteria this year will be the same, so keep in mind what we said in the “Reflections” post we wrote after the challenge ended. In the end, we picked the 10 we liked best and published one a day in late April and early May. Last year we received over 200 submissions to our challenge, and it took us days to decide among them. What makes a great found poem? How did you choose your favorites last year? Some Times writing that you think is already poetic, as Alan Feuer does with Craigslist and its “Missed Connections” posts. You can mix and combine these words and phrases into a new piece, or you might simply “find” (PDF)Ī New York Times found poem uses words and phrases taken from one Times article, past or present, or several. ![]() Let the cutting and pasting begin!Ī good nutshell description would be “poems that are composed from words and phrases found in another text.” For more detail, we suggest this excellent article. In honor of National Poetry Month, here is everything you need to know about our second annual Found Poem Student Challenge. We did it last year and were delighted by the results, so we’re doing it again this year. You can view the 10 we chose as “favorites” here. Update | June 11, 2011: We received over 650 entries to this challenge. No Instagram images were found.Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times Go to related article, in which a journalist finds poetry in the “Missed Connections” section of Craigslist. I use this blog to share my thoughts about education, technology, and travel. Hello! My name is Michelle Lampinen, and I am a technology integration instructional coach living in Costa Rica by way of New Jersey. Who has two thumbs and is crazy proud right now? This girl! Of those 2,000, four Biotechers were honored! Check them out, and if you see them in the hallways, congratulate them! Click the student’s name to read his or her poem. This activity may sound easy because the words are already there, but I think you’d be surprised by just how difficult it can be! I was so pleased with their work, freshmen and juniors alike.Īccording to the Learning Network Blog, there were upwards of 2,000 entries submitted. Fortunately for us, we have 16 copies of The Times come to school every day, so we had a nice stock pile of papers.įirst I must note that I was so impressed by all the poems that my students wrote. I gave students a little more than an hour to work on their poems, and they finished them up on their own time. The challenge is to write a poem (14 lines or fewer) made almost completely of words from New York Times articles (they can have two of their own words if desired). This year, I had my students (froshies and juniors) submit their found poetry to the NY Times 5th annual found poetry contest. ![]() April is the cruellest month, but the fact that it’s Poetry Month makes it much more bearable. ![]()
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