Finding found poems

Go to your five favourite websites.  From each one take three sentences that stand out for you.

These are the words you’re going to use to put together your poem.  Take the words and shape them, wrestle with them, turn them into something new.  A found poem.

Take a look at poets.org to learn more about found poetry.  They sum up what you’re going to be doing with your three sentences from each website when they say ‘a found poem is the literary equivalent of a collage.’

So gather the words you’re going to use then put them together to create something new.  Let your imagination and your five favourite websites help you rewrite the world.