Day 26 – How to Create “Book Spine Poetry” for #NationalPoetryMonth and 30 poems in 30 days

Day 26 – How to Create “Book Spine Poetry” for #NationalPoetryMonth and 30 poems in 30 days

Good times! Book Spine Poetry is a fun and intriguing way to “create” or, actually, “find” a poem by arranging and rearranging a stack of books horizontally that show the title on the book spine into something clever that might be a “poem.” Just like creating any poetry, you get to decide if it will be happy or sad, serious or funny, or whatever.

Simply start perusing the titles on your bookshelves, pull out some that have possibilities, and start stacking them up to see what you might discover. Here’s a very quick and rather silly one I pulled together out of some kids’ books:

 

“One Windy Day”                       
“Samantha Learns a Lesson”
“20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”
“Nine True Dolphin Stories”
“All about . . . Dinosaurs”

 

If you need more inspiration, here is a link (these examples are more than ten years old, but they still will give you an idea of what we are doing if you still have questions) from the “School Library Journal” where you can browse through several years of photos of book spine poetry for some inspiration if you need ideas:

http://100scopenotes.com/2014/04/01/2014-book-spine-poem-gallery/ “Spine Book Gallery”

If you take photos of your “Book Spine Poems” (and I think you should), try to line up the titles when you stack them up – we are only interested in the titles for this poetry form. Feel free to post a photo of your “found” poetry creation(s) and post it in our FB group, and elsewhere on social media ~ be sure to link back to this blog post on how to do it so others can join in. So fun!!!

Over the years, I have come up with several “Book Spine” Poems. How many can you put together? My book spine poetry is not particularly profound; well, maybe one or two give “food for thought,” but it’s rather fun putting them together.

Write up the poem by writing a title per line (TITLES ONLY) in the same order that you stacked them up. Take a photo and post both the written version and the photo version. Cheers!!

So, whatcha’ got?

Ok, in no particular order, here are some of mine:

Grandfather Remembers
Confessions of an Unbalanced Woman
Coming Clean
Just the Way I Am

 

The Go-Getter
Landlord
Never Can Say Good-bye
Behind the Scenes

Giant Steps

A Man, A Can, A Plan

Feeding a Giant

Big in Japan

Raw Power

  

I Dare You
The Double Cross
Counting the Cost
Don’t
 

 

 

PLEASE REMEMBER ~ any poetry found on this blog, written by me, is my personal property and may not be used without my permission, other than sharing it as an example in a lesson or to read it to someone. The same goes for any poems that are shared in the comments of this blog or elsewhere online as a result of this challenge. They are the creative property of the person who writes them. These poems are their original work, and no one may use them without their permission. It is understood that they own the copyright to them as soon as they create them, and especially once they post them. Thanks so much!

*** Also, if you choose to post your poems on your own blog or elsewhere on social media ~ that’s awesome. But PLEASE don’t just copy and paste my daily instructions, but rather post your poem on your blog or your FB wall or wherever AND LINK BACK TO EACH DAY’S SPECIFIC BLOG POST for others to come here to read the instructions. I’ve spent considerable time researching the poetry forms and writing them up to share with you. Thanks for respecting my work.