What is Found Poetry?
- According to the website, “Ask Jeeves for Kids,” a found poem is “a composition made by combining fragments of such printed material as newspapers, signs, or menus, and rearranging them into the form of a poem.”

Found Poem: Poetic Form, from Poets.org
Teaching Strategy: Found Poems from Facing History and Ourselves
Retelling History Though Poetry, Library of Congress
Found Poetry Instructions from ReadWriteThink
Hide from Math? a found poem by Bob Maloy

Student Challenge: Create a New York Times Found Poem
Found and Headline Poems, from National Council of Teachers of English

Found Art Poetry
The Arrow Finds Its Mark: A Book of Found Poems. Georgia Heard, Roaring Brook Press, 2012


What is Blackout Poetry?
Blackout Poems, Scholastic
Searching for Poetry in Prose, New York Times.
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