A Quick Post of Recent Work
by Fay Picardi
Several of
you have expressed an interest in finding out about the recent class I took on
Comic Poetry with David Laskey, a former student of mine at McLean High School.
Portfolio: http://www.laskycomics.com/ Comics and Art for sale: http://www.etsy.com/shop/LaskyArt
Wikipedia
defines Comic Poetry as a hybrid
creative form that combines aspects of comics and poetry. It draws from the syntax of comics, images, panels, speech balloons, and so on,
in order to produce a literary or
artistic experience akin to that of traditional poetry.
In
other words, almost anything goes. Try googling “Comic poetry definition” and
then go to “images.”
Well,
if you are like me, you are still confused. David made it really easy to
understand, so I will share some of the examples and assignments he gave us.
With David’s direction, we did several exercises using either a simple traditional poetry or an original poem which we wrote. Start easy. David supplied stimulating inspirational visuals and further explanation about them.
The whales sleep standing up for about two hours at a time. They then surface and resume their lives until it is time to sleep again.
The
first original poem I tried to make into a comic poem was based on the photo
and an article about sleeping whales.
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