1. VIDEO: https://www.coursera.org/learn/poetry-workshop/ show intro and Week 1 from California Institute of the Arts
2. Exercises: The Found Poem: A Brand New poem in Three Easy Steps
Grab a paragraph of text from a book or on the web and make a found poem by breaking a passage in to lines. A poem is more than line broken prose, but this exercise can help you experiment with rhythm and sound quickly.
Breaking Good: Chop a Block of Famous Poetry
Below is a piece of lineated poetry that has been stripped of line breaks—I’ve also gotten rid of capitalization except where grammatically necessary. Copy the bolded text below into a new document or write it out by hand, adding line breaks where you think they should go.
tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. out, out, brief candle! life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
To see the source of this text and in its original form, click here. Try the exercise first before taking a peek!
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