I did my found poem on a topic that happens way more than it should, School Shootings. This article was published by The Washington Post and was trending for months. This article talking about how 2018 was the deadliest year for school shootings compared to deployed service members. I used this article because it has a topic that me the most upset. With this article, I first used white-out to get rid of words that did not relate as much to the event. After whiting out words, I printed out another copy of this article and cut out the words that I left on the first copy. Then, I set up the words I left out in a way that would make this long repetitive article show its meaning. This poem isn’t as long because a good amount of the words repeated too many times, which also isn’t a bad thing. What I tried to do with my poem is to show the reader that through terrible situations we make break from, we can all come together.
This topic is also very important to me and captures my attention because school shootings are something that should never even be an issue and should be dealt with immediately as a country while taking the right precautions. I also like the method in which you used to put together your found poem. It was very unique and made I easier to zoom in and focus on what was important in order to put your poem together. I really liked the way you emphasized that “we are broken” as a country by putting it by itself in its own line in order for your readers to be aware of it. I can clearly see your point that even in traumatic and violent situations we as a nation can come together and find solutions to our problems. The only thing I would say that you could have done was maybe made the title a little more interesting rather than just putting “Found Poem”. Other than that, it was good overall!
I like how you tackled this issue. I also cut out my lines, and I think it really adds to the abstract style of found poems. I enjoyed reading your poem as I could tell you were passionate about this issue. School shootings is a huge problem that our country faces, and it continues as a problem with the loose laws on guns. Overall, good found poem, and I’m glad you found something passionate to write about.
I really like how this poem does not feature many words and gets right to the point you’re trying to make. School shootings aren’t a threat that should this common in our society, and yet this past year has been the most deadly. I like isolating the line “we are broken” because it is the most powerful line in this poem in my opinion.