![]() ![]() So, for example, this post’s URL is ///1/our-second-annual-found-poem-challenge/, while the URL for the film review of the 2008 movie “Twilight” To find a URL for an article, just copy and paste what comes up at the top of the page in At the bottom of your found-poem post, please provide us with the URL(s), or Web address(es), of the article(s) you used.Don’t include your last name because our privacy rules still apply, but please do give us your first name, your age.You must be between 13 and 25 years of age.Remember that in a poem, every word, space and mark of punctuation carries meaning, so have fun experimenting with line breaks, repetition of words, alliteration, assonance, shape or anything else that enhances.You might choose to write in a traditional poetic form, or not.(Note: We check.Ī few people were disqualified last year for not adhering to this rule.) The rest of the words and phrases should come from some article or articles published in The New York Times, past or present. The poem itself should use no more than two of your own words.You may give it your own original title if you like.Each poem must be 14 or fewer lines long. ![]() You can explore a trend you’ve read about in The Times, or you might simply collect words and phrases from different articles around a theme like identity, loss or joy. It can focus on something currently in the news, or you can use the Times archives or On This Day in History to write about the past. It can be about something as broad as animals or as specific as the missing Bronx Zoo cobra. Your poem can be on any topic or theme you like. But the nine others we liked best chose much more recent work, and that’s fine too. It’s true you can choose any Times article ever published for this challenge, and one of our favorites last year used an article from 1892. How do I find a focus for my poem with the entire New York Times to choose from? The poems that start off being about one thing and end up being about another the poems that comment on the article they came from the poems that smash together unlikely words and images from several sources to In general, careful attention to choosing and combining language impresses us most - the thoughtful choices that make us see something in a new way. Our criteria this year will be the same, so keep in mind what we said in the “Reflections” post we wrote after the challenge ended. In the end, we picked the 10 we liked best and published one a day in late April and early May. Last year we received over 200 submissions to our challenge, and it took us days to decide among them. What makes a great found poem? How did you choose your favorites last year? Some Times writing that you think is already poetic, as Alan Feuer does with Craigslist and its “Missed Connections” posts. You can mix and combine these words and phrases into a new piece, or you might simply “find” (PDF)Ī New York Times found poem uses words and phrases taken from one Times article, past or present, or several. Let the cutting and pasting begin!Ī good nutshell description would be “poems that are composed from words and phrases found in another text.” For more detail, we suggest this excellent article. ![]() In honor of National Poetry Month, here is everything you need to know about our second annual Found Poem Student Challenge. We did it last year and were delighted by the results, so we’re doing it again this year. You can view the 10 we chose as “favorites” here. Update | June 11, 2011: We received over 650 entries to this challenge. Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times Go to related article, in which a journalist finds poetry in the “Missed Connections” section of Craigslist. ![]()
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