Ok, I think I definitely got my dose of poetry for this week. The poetry workshop we did on Tuesday was really cool. I liked the ransom note poetry and the magnetic poetry. And like Annie, when I write poetry, I always felt like my poems had to rhyme. Otherwise, it seemed like they just didn’t make sense. I think this workshop broke me of that, mainly because there was very little to work with to write a poem. I was really tested on this when I went to the fortune cookie poem. My topic was about being hasty. That was hard for me to get something started so I could write. And today was absolutely awesome too! The poetry slam went really well. There were definitely some interesting ones. The whole idea freaked me out at first, but I ended up going last. So I thought, well this is it. I was just worried about what everyone was going to think of my poem. I think I definitely got my dose of poetry for this week though. Thanks Stephanie for making it fun and exciting!
On a side note, I got a call on Tuesday about 3 or so from a friend who works on grounds crew at ICC. He hosed all of our poems off. :( That made me sad but oh well. And the only reason he knew it was me is because I signed my name. I guess that’s considered graffiti, and there’s not supposed to be anything written on the walls or concrete. BOO!!
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Oh no!!! our poems are lost! hahaha that is really pretty funny that they took the time to hose them off.. i mean it's chalk, and it's not as if it hasn't been raining this summer.. lol. a lesson in impermanence.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first heard about the workshop I thought 'oh great I'm going to have to be creative.' But it wasn't bad at all. I actually had fun writing some of the poems. The one poem came to me very easily and that surprised me, because I'm not a writer. I was kinda excited for the poem slam and to hear other peoples poems, but I really did not want to get up and read mine. But I think overall it was a good, fun experience.
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