Attempt at found poetry

2012-03-19T05:17:11Z

Found poetry is a type of poetry where, instead of creating an original poem, you take a non-poetic source - like a newspaper article or a grammar guide or a non-fiction book - and then change the form and perhaps the content to make it into poetry, while still retaining the original meaning. It can also be taken from other poems, but I'm guessing that would involve individual lines or words rather than whole stanzas.

An explanation can be found here: http://verbatimpoetry.blogspot.com.au/p/about-verbatim.html
EDIT: And a better one here: http://www.thewritersezine.com/t-zero/archives/2003-texts/2003-12-poetics.shtml
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I have very mixed feelings about this genre. Yes, it is a legitimate genre, and yes, it does appear in the New York Times (albeit in the educational section for students) as well as having its own poetry journal (link: http://www.foundpoetryreview.com/).
On one hand I think it's awesome to reinterpret something intended to be entirely non-poetic. But I just feel weird about taking someone else's article and breaking it up and calling that a poem without putting any effort in.

ETA: Poem removed because I realised I was restating the article, not reinterpreting it. :)

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Attempt at found poetry