Loyd—SCPS
Creative
Writing
You
don’t have to suffer to be a poet.
Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
--John
Ciardi
1. Search these websites to find a poet who
captures your attention:
www.poets.org The
Academy of American Poets
www.loc.gov/poetry/180/ Poetry 180 (Billy Collins and the Library of
Congress)
2.
Using Word, write a concise summary of the poet’s
biography. Summarize
in your own words a
brief chronological account of the unique events in your
poet’s life. (1/2 page, single-spaced)
3. Below your biographical summary, copy one
poem by your poet.
4. Select two “perfect ” words from this poem
to add to your word list in your
journal
and to use in a free verse poem of your own.
5. Write a free verse poem in the style of
your poet using your poet’s two
“perfect” words somewhere in it.
6.
E-mail the above assignment to me (dloyd@savcps.com)
by Thurs., March 3.
The poet, as everyone
knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen
and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, but it is then
he must strike it or never. School and
college have been
conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something
else till the danger of
his ever creating anything has past.
--Robert
Frost