My Blog Idea

I believe it was Mimi Moriarty who presented the idea of a "found poem" to the class. A "found poem" is basically where one finds poetry in everyday writings, such as in magazines, books, and just about any other object with words on it or in it or around it as long as it is not already poetry itself. In the strict form of found poetry, the punctuation and form can be changed, and enjambments can be added as long as the order of the words do not change. In a freer form, original "self-written" parts can also be added on to sections of the poem.

Original Text: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in the Soviet sphere and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high  and increasing measure of control from Moscow..." - Western Civilization by Jackson J. Spielvogel, page 882.

Cold
War

From Stettin
in the Baltic
to Trieste in the Adriatic,
an iron curtain
has descended across the continent.
Behind
that line
lie all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern Europe. Warsaw,
Berlin,
Prague, Vienna,
Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest,
and Sofia,
all lie in the
Soviet sphere
and all are subject,
in one way or another, not only
to Soviet influence but
to a very high
and increasing measure
of
control from Moscow...