POETRY IS:

EXPERIMENTING with words and ideas

PLAYING with images 

ZONING in on an object, idea or feeling

COMPARING things that don’t usually go together

EXPRESSING- real feelings, real memories, real things- RIGHT NOW!

TELLING STORIES-

IS NOT a FORMULA                    

OR a RECIPE

It doesn't just FILL IN THE BLANKS

How Poets work:

1. Poets LOOK closer 

2.Poets play

with SOUND  

 

                                    3. Poets make

                COMPARISONS

4. Poets REVISE