Writing Reflection #8

Welcome back blog followers,

So, it’s Monday April 30, 2012 and you know what that means, time for yet another writing reflection. This reflection will be focused on Newspaper Blackout Poetry.

I personally like doing Newspaper Blackout Poetry Newspaper Blackout Poetry. I think it is fun. I’m not sure if I did this assignment correctly.

I had trouble finding my first article because I guess I wasn’t looking in the right newspapers. It took me two classes to find the first article but I finally found an article on Whitney Houston’s death. I made my poem about music. The first poem is kind of messing and a little hard to read because the words I needed, weren’t in the proper order.

The second article was hard for me because none of the articles I found could relate back to the music theme. I finally found an animal article, so I decided my theme could be poems from the Metro newspaper since that is where I found the first article. This poem is less messy and is easier to read.

The third and last poem I found is also about animals. This poem is probably the most organized and the easiest to read out of the three poems. I found this article in the Metro newspaper also.

I wish I could find another animal article so that could be my theme but I searched in many newspapers over the weekend, but could not find any animal articles.

I am happy with the poems I came up with.

Makes Newspaper Blackout Poetry unique from the other types of writing we have done this semester (listogrpahy, doodling, six word memoirs, moments) is that the words were there for us to use, we just had to pick the words out.  For the listogrpahy we did at the beginning of the semester, we had to come up with the ideas from a list; this is nothing like Newspaper Blackout Poetry. Doodling is nothing the same as Newspaper Blackout Poetry because we had to draw things when we did the doodling. Six word memoirs and our moments are like the listography in the sense of us coming up with the ideas.

While doing Newspaper Blackout Poetry, I found myself searching for the correct words after I found a got an idea. I found it hard to not summarize the article but transform it into a new idea.

That’s all for now but come back later to see more of my blog

♥ Michelle