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Poetry Unfolding

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Poetry Unfolding is  an eco-art and poetry project for middle schoolers. We go outdoors and engage the five senses through a series of simple mindfulness exercises. The students jot responses in journals, do a drawing exercise, and assemble material for a poem. I provide a grid to simplify crafting the interconnected parts of the "fortune teller" or "cootie catcher" poem.

Then I give a quick lesson in paper folding and how to make a cootie catcher. Students can decorate, draw, paint on the paper before or after folding it, and write their finished poems onto the flaps to create a haiku-like series of 16 different poems based in concrete responses to an outdoor setting and their direct perceptions. Click here to see some of my published cootie catcher poems.

Poems of Possibility

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A Hole in the Fabric of Sound

This cootie catcher poem was tucked inside one of the assemblages of my #NoPipelines eco-art poetry trail called "LandEscapes."
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Print in Color

Sometimes I add color to complement the text.
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Big, bigger

I write cootie catcher poems on a version that can easily be printed on  regular paper, but my favorite format for these is large -- on as large a piece of paper as I can find, with painting, printing using natural objects to enrich the poem. 

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