visual poetry

poetry workshop
What great blogging to awaken to on a Saturday rainy morning. Thanks!

Feel free to incorporate images in your poems. In fact, why not go buy one of those disposable cameras and use it toward a collage piece, with or without words. Every time you have an idea or feeling, take a picture. Better yet, use your picture-taking as a way to frame ideas and feelings as they come to you.

If you do a photos-only poem, you can "translate" it later into words, leaving out commentary and simply presenting the images. Or you can write "captions" to photos. This is also a good exercise for working with photographs whose origins you don't know. Find some old photos of people you don't know and write captions for them.

Thanks again. Back to worrying about Jon the cat, who hasn't eaten on his own for days.

Susan