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Charles Reznikoff's Poem For Ideas
Good afternoon Dr.

I have been working on my found poem for the last few days. I have been working on two poems based on two conversations. One of a nurse who lost a wedding ring down the sink and the other is two of my student reminiscing about middle school. I was struggling to find a poetic tone I am satisfied with in ether of these and I turned to the internet to research found pomes for Ideas.

I read some examples of found poems. I read that Charles Reznikoff created poetry from law reports, I read an excerpt and a few examples on Poets .org and from Reznikoff’s book Testimony.

Inspired by this approach I started playing around with making pomes out of my old Military evaluations and citations. I like how they have gone so far.
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