Found Poetry: Part 2 by Judi Kauffman for The Queen’s Ink

“I’m inclined to keep going.” This is one of the lines in a piece of Found Poetry from my little book, shown above, and it sums up my current mood.

The first installment of Found Poetry was a starting point - just the words and phrases, cut and pasted onto prepared pages (gel prints and handmade papers glued into a small Moleskine journal). 

This installment shows how the pages have evolved over the last couple of weeks: Stamping, doodling and some coloring and shading added. Are they done? For now, yes. But who knows...

Have you done any Found Poetry yet? Give it a try!!!

Another option: I’ve been cutting and pasting, but another avenue for Found Poetry is to paint and draw over almost all of the words on a page in a book (no cutting), leaving only those words or phrases that become free verse. (It’s got the look of a censored or redacted document...) That’s what I’m trying next! Stay tuned for Found Poetry: Part 3.

SUPPLIES:

• Red Castle rubber stamps
• Ink pad(s) in color(s) of choice
• Colored pencils
• Pigma Micron pens in black (Sakura of America)
• Gelly Roll pen in white (Sakura of America)