{"id":9630,"date":"2020-09-24T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=9630"},"modified":"2020-09-23T21:29:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T04:29:01","slug":"collage-in-poetry-prompt-529","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/collage-in-poetry-prompt-529\/","title":{"rendered":"Collage in Poetry . . . Prompt #529"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I would like to share collage in writing with you, some things I learned from the poet Dave Seter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His poem, \u201cFargo Airport, Waiting in a Bar\u201d in The Write Spot: Writing as a Path to Healing<\/a> <\/em>is an example of using collage in poetry. The lines in italics in his poem are from signs on the wall and on the label on a bottle. He seamlessly incorporates \u201clines from others\u201d into his poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look around you . . . what writing do you see that you can use in your writing?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps: A book title, a greeting card, writing on d\u00e9cor, writing on a tissue box, or a piece of mail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or: A note you have written, writing on a coffee mug, a sign on a wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A label on a jar, a can, or a bottle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also use song lyrics as a jumping off point for your writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing Prompt: Today . . . or . . . Yesterday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incorporate written words that you see into your writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A stanza from \u201cFargo Airport, Waiting in a Bar\u201d by Dave Seter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waiting for a funeral, it seems the years collapse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

into one moment. I want to find<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the right thing to say to firemen and farmers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

who are kind, as they offer from<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Bucket of Beer Nine Dollars<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dave Seter<\/a> is the author of \u00a0Night Duty,<\/a> <\/em>\u00a0and Don\u2019t Sing to Me of Electric Fences<\/em>, a poetry collection due out from Cherry Grove Collections in 2021. A civil engineer and poet, he writes about social and environmental issues, including the intersection of the built world and the natural world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Chicago, he now lives in Sonoma County, California. He earned his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Princeton University and his graduate degree in humanities from Dominican University of California, where he studied ecopoetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave wrote his master\u2019s thesis<\/a>, \u201cIntroducing Godzilla to Marianne Moore’s Octopus of Ice at the Intersection of Global Warming, Environmental Philosophy, and Poetry,<\/span>\u201d based on Marianne Moore\u2019s collage poem, \u201cAn Octopus (of ice).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u201cThis paper explores the question: How can a poet write an ecologically aware poem about global warming?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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