Hello Creative Poets!!

Here you'll find links to PDFs that include both the poem we discussed in class as well as the guidelines for actually writing the poem. (I also left the examples in).

- "Introduction to Poetry" - Billy Collins

* Filling in the Blank Poems & I Am... Poems

- "Stranger" - Chris Bellew

* Just Because Poem

- "Going Blind" - Ranier Maria Rilke

* Synonym Poem

- "Try to Prai

se a Mutilated World" - Adam Zagakewski

* 3 Word Poem

- "Titanic" - David R. Slavitt

*List Poem (10 items long!!)

- "Waiting for My Real Life to Begin" - Colin Hay

*Sense poem & 2 Diamonte poems

- "anyone lived in a pretty how town" - e.e. cummings

*Bull Durham Creedo

- "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" - Robert Frost

*Concrete Poem

-"If We Must Die" - Claude McKay

*Acrostic Poems

-"There's Always Someone Cooler Than You" - Ben Folds

*Recipe Poems

-"I Sing the Body Electric" - Song from 'Fame'

*Curse & Toast Poems

-"Red Wheelbarrow" - William Carlos Williams & "Fog" - Carl Sandburg

*Haiku & Tanaka Poems

-"I Am Offering this Poem" - Jimmy Santiago Baca

*Pantoum