Found Poetry Collages by Mary Bast: Center for Sports Jones

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Center for Sports Jones

Education

“Raw Dog Investments renew federal bucks.”
“Student driver nails pizza.”
“Kids for Rent move Sweetest Donut installation.”
“Light Housekeeping Union chomps Linens Laundry Lobby.”
“Edward credits pediatric medicine plus The Force.”

Space Available

Stop Companionship Pressure
Oven-Baked Vinyl Training Institute
Hardwood Carpet and Herbal Hair Tires
Center for Flooring Rips Sales & Installation
Barbershop Spa – Dominos and Pit BBQ
Saint Leo University Closed

Stay and Renew

Center for Sports Jones
Sleep Disorders Catering
Love Touching Chiropractic
Tai Chi Sandwiches & Acupuncture Café
Express Family Night Drop
Magnolia Queen Star Charisma
Oil or Thyme Rehab Preparation
Coffee Council for Shopping Health

Therapy

Go Primal: Walk in Bike Lane
Painless Fitness: Stop Cleaning Things for Hours
Heart’s Genesis: Do Art at My Home
Walk Up Respite Care: Appointments
Come Get Me: Chinese Stress Connection

PoMoSco instructions: "Go for a walk, copying down text from all signage you pass. At each intersection, flip a coin to determine your new direction and continue copying text. Use this word bank for a poem."

The above are re-ordered words from signage noted as I walked south from my apartment complex on NW 51st St. in Gainesville, Florida, to Timber Village, then east on 39th Ave.to Magnolia Parke, both with restaurants, banks, and other small businesses.

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About Me

Former Editor at Bacopa Literary Review, I write poetry, found poetry, and memoir. When my hands aren't on computer keys they're creating art.

The Found Poetry Review's 2015 PoMoSco (Poetry Month Scouts) project especially intrigued me -- the chance to experiment with a variety of found poetry structures.

Those exercises also enhanced my under-standing of poetry and writing in general. For example, the "First in Line" badge required creating a poem from first lines in one poet's collection.

My resulting poem, "The Days Have Done With You" (from Nina Bogin's collection In the North) made me much more aware of the way a poem's first line can either set up what's going to happen or drop us right into action, much the same as the start of a good novel.

Some Forms of Found Poetry

Found poetry is created by taking words or phrases from other sources and changing spacing and lines, adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning. Any poetic form can be used with found poetry.

There's also the cento—made up of lines from other poems. The sources may be poems of a single poet, or many poets, or even many different languages.

Erasure poems eliminate everything from a page or pages except the words that make up the poem. The "erasure" may be accomplished by white-out, correction tape (of various colors), lightening a photo and writing the poem's words over the original text, and many other variations.

Called blackout poems when covered with black tape (often refers to newspaper articles blacked out except for the words of the poem).

Ekphrasis usually refers to poetry inspired by visual art; I've extended the term to include art inspired by poetry.

Illustrated poetry describes poems and art side by side.

Haiga traditionally incorporated an ink-brush or watercolor painting, a haiku poem, and calligraphy. Modern poets stretch these boundaries, superimposing haiku on photos, for example.