Your Voice in the Verse self-expression, creative ownership and poetry

a stimulus for a Grade 8 poetry class

PoeTRY FORum 2012

KateW

Some famous dead people were poets.

But poetry is not ‘famous dead people’.

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OICE

Poetry is here –you claim the space and place

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poetry shuffles around in the random & the

mundane

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‘poetry is philosophy’s

sister – the one that wears

makeup’ Jennifer Grotz, 2005.

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poetry is

dissection. you

control what is

exposed

and what is

unrevealed.

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poetry lets

you find a

million

different

ways to say

the same

thing.

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poetry is an act

of retrieval. you

already make

poetry with your

eyes, mind and

voice.

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“poetry is

such a

showman.

It ran away

and joined a

hip hop band.”

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poetry is like a club with no rules,

no dress code & no joining fees.

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poetry

changes

everything.

and nothing

much at all.

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poetry wants to start

conversations

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poetry makes a moment indelible.

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You cannot ‘lose’ your poetry.

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Credits of original images

1. Snyder, Marc. [image] "Marc Snyder in Black and White." FIMP. Fiji Island Mermaid Press. 23 Oct.-Nov. 2007

<http://www.fimp.net/bw24poets.html>.

2. Artist unknown. [Image] ‘trainers over wire’. [Image]. Accessed on www.theatlanticcitties.com

3. Artist Unknown. [Image] ‘Scrambled poetry’. Available on: http://libraries.wichita.edu/subsplus/subjects/poetry

4. [Original image]: Vintage dress. Accessible on http://kellygolightly.com/total-betty-mad-men-vintage-dresses

5. Bob Trotman, ‘Tom’ . 2005. Figure in wood, tempura and wax. Photo courtesy of North Carolina Museum of Art.

6. [artists unknown] ‘Peace-Love-hand-sweet.jpg’ accessed on 1 May 2012, on Deadspace.wikia.com/wiki

7. [artist unknown]. ‘T.S. Eliot ‘ [image]. Copyright Bettman/CORBIs, as used in Poster for Poetry Out Loud, Alaska. [online]

.Juneau Arts & Humanities Council www.jahc.org

8. [artist unknown], Hilltop Hoods+ 3’, Last.Fm accessed 1 May 2012, www.last.fm/music/Hilltop+Hoods

9. Artist Unknown. ‘Portrait of Emily Dickinson’, Courtesy of Amherst College Library. Featured in poster for

#poetrybyemilydickinson

10. Cover of the U2 album War (1983). Photograph by Ian Finlay.

11. Artist unknown. [image] ‘Streets are Saying Things’., from the Graffiti Museum. Accessed from Place of Social Media

[online] http://placeofsocialmedia.com/blog/2005/07/22/streets-are-saying-things%E2%84%A2-the-original-online-

graffiti-museum/

12. Ivory Elephant Photography. [image] ‘Poetry tattoo’. 2006. Accessed from :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/naiadsspring/194261504/

13. Artist Unknown. [image] ‘Alienation’. Accessed from www.thehappiercompany.com

All images used for educational and teaching purposes only.