Poetry Month Preview: Found Poem

April is National Poetry Month, and as such, I am giving all of my darling students the privilege of creating a poetry notebook for my class. One of the poems the eleventh graders will be doing is called a found poem. I am not usually that enthusiastic about this particular form of poetry - it always seemed a bit like plagiarism to me - but I finally created one that works. For me, at least. Oh, and since I didn't have room for this on the slide, the prose from which this poem is created comes from Orson Scott Card's classic Ender's Game, pp. 262-263. If you haven't read it yet, you ought to.