The Pictures of the Poet The Painting and Drawings of William Blake, by Martin. It is too late to adapt to a starshade and block light from a star.īetter to hang on to gas and lighter components,Ĭoncentrate our search for cosmic company. The Heavy Burden of the Past Poets, The New York Times, January 4, 1981. The right doses of starlight and water could turn those that surviveĮven ice plumes contain tiny forms of life,Įven the elements in smoke detectors unfold to catch laser light.
We are migrating butterflies across the universe. “Space Migration” was taken from two articles by Dennis Overbye, 2016’s “ Reaching for the Stars, Across 4.37 Light-Years”Īnd 2015’s “ So Many Earth-Like Planets, So Few Telescopes.”
This one, by by Mariam Van, is our final favorite, but you can read the whole collection here. Not only is this an easy path to get students writing for a larger audience, but it’s also a sneaky way to get them to dig into some non-fiction/informational text while sharpening those creative minds.We have been honoring the top winners of our Seventh Annual Found Poem Student Contest by publishing their work in alphabetical order by last name for the last two weeks. They’ll actually “turn in” their poems by submitting them to The Learning Network blog by the May 3 deadline and then either sending me a screenshot of their entry once its posted (for security, I’ll have them submit using only their initials and the name of our town) or showing me their submission on my classroom computer during our SSR reading time on Friday. Finally, set students loose in the computer lab to read articles and build their Found Poem. Explain the contest rules, listed within the NYTimes’ Learning Network Found Poetry blog post.Ĭlick here for a printer-friendly version of the contest rules to give to your students.ħ. You could share the two source articles ( here and here), but to save time I won’t repeat the word scavenger hunt. After discussion of the “Amy” poem, project “The Sickness Man Has Spread,” another winner from last year by Luisa Rincon, and have a student volunteer read it aloud to the class: Review the answers by projecting the first page of the key to allow students to self-check once the work time is finished.ĥ. Give students two different colored highlighters or two different colored pencils and have them mark both the poem and the articles, as directed on the assignment.Ĥ. I just re-formatted everything to save paper and make the work more usable in my classroom.)Ĭlick here for my print-and-go version of the “Amy” poem assignment and articles.ģ. ( The New York Times holds all rights to this work which is located here. Give them the “Amy” poem by Epiphany Jones, one of last year’s contest winners, and a copy of the articles about singer Amy Winehouse that Jones used as source material. Have students group themselves in teams of two.Ģ. To make this work in my classroom, I’ll begin by telling my students that they have an opportunity to become internationally recognized poets by using someone else’s words. Curious what this looks like? Last year’s winning entries can be viewed by clicking here. It’s been a long, cold winter, but there is no more reliable sign of spring on The Learning Network than our annual found poem contest. The New York Times just launched its 8th annual Found Poetry Contest, a perfect way for us to blend high-quality informational text and creative writing.īasically, students pick and choose wording from one article or blend words/phrases from two articles to create a Found Poem of no more than 14 lines. Today, I’m adding a sixth solid (and free!) resource. Last week, I shared five easy ways to help you celebrate National Poetry Month in your classroom.
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