Week 6 Class Exercise

In this exercise, I want us to write a collaborative, improvised series that is produced from a set of arbitrary procedures.  We'll post the results on this blog after class.

PART I

1. Get into pairs or threes
   
2. Write a poem with the following parameters:  three lines where each line can stand on its own but also can be enjambed over the line break
   

PART II 

1. Switch partners with one taking a poem so that the new pairs each have one poem; use a new sheet of paper
   
2. Translate the poem using only words that have a specific consonant, i.e. one group uses only words that have the letter p in them, another group uses s, another n, another m, and last the letter b.
   

 PART III

1. Switch partners again getting a new poem from another group
   
2. On a new sheet of paper write another three lined poem that is thematically relevant to the one in front of you but using only words that you can make from anagrams of your names
   

 PART IV

1. Now, let’s read the poems aloud and then work as a whole group to place the poems in a striking, effective, or thematically coherent order.