This is one of the possible [[assignments for poetry]] you can choose. <small>T1: Communication and/or T2: Reading </small> Look around. Notice what you notice. Find poetry in the world around you; take it home and play around with it. **Make something of your own out of it.** Rearrange, cut and paste, black out, tear up and glue back together, randomize, photograph, or copy word for word from the unutterable strangeness of everyday life. You can also [[embed poetry anywhere]]. <img src="whitepeony.png" alt="a tiny haiku on a tea tin" title="a tiny haiku on a tea tin"/> Sometimes a random Google doc ends up looking like at least the start of a poem. <img src="cw-seshnote-found-poem.png" alt="screenshot of the shared notes doc from a live class meeting" title="everyone typing on our shared notes doc seemed to form the start of a poem"/> You could check out [*Found Poems* by Bern Porter](https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/4628/) for inspiration, or see [what poets.org has to say](https://poets.org/glossary/found-poem). [<img src="bernporter.jpg" alt="image of the cover of bern porter’s book" title="I have a copy of this 1972 classic if you want to borrow it!"/>](https://hyperallergic.com/bern-porters-found-poems/) Let yourself be surprised! <img src="oconomowoc-post-office.jpg" alt="image of a rolling bin at Oconomowoc Post Office" title="Someone working on the receiving dock must have been really bored!"/>