1. Found and Visual Poetry (VisPo)
Let’s Make Poems
Found and Visual Poetry (VisPo)
Presented by
Aaron Gillego
June 8, 2017

2. Fortune Teller Origami Poetry

3. Fortune Teller Origami Poetry

4. Fortune Teller Origami Poetry

5. Fortune Teller Origami Poetry

6. Fortune Teller Origami Poetry
Top Layer = 8 abstract concepts
Middle Layer = 8 strong action verbs
Inside Layer = 8 similes with concrete image
8 x 8 x 8 = 512 possible lines of poetry

7. Banana Ladder sweet, healthy, crescent-shaped, yellow banana Universe
ABSTRACT
Universe
More
vague & general
Life
Nutrition
Food
yellow
crescent-shaped
Fruit
sweet
healthy
More specific & precise
Banana
CONCRETE

8. Fortune Teller Origami Poetry
Play-Pair-Share Each partner writes three to four lines of poetry found in the fortune teller.

9. Fortune Teller Origami Poetry
As a follow-up assignment, ask students to write a poem in free verse that incorporates one of the lines found in the fortune teller as a springboard.

10. What is VisPo?
"I define concrete poems as those in which only letters and/or words are utilized to form a visual image, whereas visual poems constitute those in which images are integrated into the text of the poem. ”
--Marvin Sackner, Ph.D.
Visual Poetry in the Avant Writing Collection
(Ohio State University, 2008)
“Thinking Zen”
by K.S. Ernst and David Cole (2000)

11. by ee cummings

12. Erasure: Just can’t get enough
from Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place (2014)
by Jennifer Tamayo
from Humument (2007)
by Tom Phillips

13. Makey-Makey + Erasure

14. Exquisite Corpse “Nude” Cadavre Exquis with
Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Max Morise, Man Ray ( )

15. Current Project

17. Shadow Box Poems Materials
(have your students
bring in some materials)
Shadow boxes
Found objects
Scissors, glue, tape, markers
Styrofoam / styrofoam board
Construction paper
Have students work on project in a MakerSpace or iLab to add bells & whistles.

18. Helpful Resources http://www.vispo.com