If you’re ever suffering from writer’s block, looking at the newspaper can be a good way of giving yourself some ideas.
Think of a news story you read or heard about recently, and write a poem based on it.
I was recently doing research on the Kobe Bryant trial and read an article that pissed me off. This is the FOund Poem that I wrote from that article.
evidence about
sex
is legally relevant
as an indicator about
how victim-protection laws
work
the opportunity to introduce
sexual partners
who
could have caused
vaginal injuries
to
the concept of rape-
victim protection
-NYTimes “Judge Limiting Sex-Life Shield at Bryant Trial” By KIRK JOHNSON
Published: July 24, 2004
There’s so much bad stuff in the paper, I avoid it at all costs.