Community Collection 16: FOUND POEMS with Georgia Heard

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Today’s Guest…

is a busy keynote speaker who spends a large amount of her time helping teachers and librarians share the wonders of poetry with their students. Please welcome poet and educator …

GEORGIA HEARD

 

THE POEM

 

THE PROMPT

Find a Found Poem
Pick up a scrap of paper off the floor or read a sign at a gas station or look at graffiti on the subway and find poetry in these words. Found poems are like a word collage where you take existing text, reorder and refashion it, and present it as a poem.
Try It:
Scan the world and find poems hiding in a variety of sources: newspaper and magazine articles; the back of a cereal box; signs on a classroom or school wall; a dictionary; among many other places.
Read more found poems for inspiration in The Arrow Finds Its Mark: A Book of Found Poems by Georgia Heard (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan).

COMMUNITY COLLECTION 16: FOUND POEMS

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THE POET

Georgia Heard is a founding member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project in New York City. She received her M.F.A. in Poetry from Columbia University. Currently, she is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences and in schools around the United States and the world.

She is the author of numerous books on writing including: Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School which was chosen by Instructor Magazine as one of the “12 Books Every Teacher Should Read,” and her most recent book Heart Maps: Helping Students Create and Craft Authentic Student Writing.

She has published several children’s poetry books including Creatures of Earth, Sea and Sky: Animal Poems (Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press), Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems (Roaring Brook/Macmillan), The Arrow Finds Its Mark: A Book of Found Poems (Roaring Brook/Macmillan — CCBC Choice (Univ. of WI), Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year), and a forthcoming collection entitled Boom! Bellow! Bleat!: Animal Poems for Two or More Voices (Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press).

Georgia lives in South Florida where she finds poems everywhere.

Discover more about the author and her books at www.GeorgiaHeard.com.

THE BOOKS

HEART MAPS: HELPING STUDENTS CREATE AND CRAFT AUTHENTIC WRITING
How do we get students to “ache with caring” about their writing instead of mechanically stringing words together?  We spend a lot of time teaching the craft of writing but we also need to devote time to helping students write with purpose and meaning. For decades, Georgia Heard has guided students into more authentic writing experiences by using heart maps to explore what we all hold inside: feelings, passions, vulnerabilities, and wonderings. In Heart Maps, Georgia shares 20 unique, multi-genre heart maps to help your students write from the heart, such as the First Time Heart Map, Family Quilt Heart Map, and People I Admire Heart Map. You’ll also find extensive support for using heart maps, including:

  • tips for getting started with heart maps
  • writing ideas to jumpstart student writing in multiple genres from heart maps
  • suggested mentor texts to provide additional inspiration             (from the author’s website)

THE ARROW FINDS ITS MARK: A BOOK OF FOUND POEMS
Imagine finding poetry on a scrap of paper tossed on the floor, or on a sign at the gas station, or in graffiti scrawled on the subway wall. This is the found poem: taking existing words, phrases, and sentences from the unlikeliest of places and refashioning them as poetry. Georgia Heard invited 30+ of the best contemporary children’s poets to “find” poems in ordinary places. (from the author’s website)

 

 

 

 

 

THE WOMAN IN THIS POEM: WOMEN’S VOICES IN POETRY (ADULT)
edited by Georgia Heard

The Woman in This Poem features the work of both classic and contemporary women poets and is organized into five thematic sections, centered on the topics of love, motherhood, work, family and friends, and balance. From the outstanding to the unexpected, this essential collection of poetry will put a lump in your throat, set your soul on fire, and remind you of who you are and how you want to live your life. (from the author’s website)

 

 
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