Thursday, 2 April 2015

Social Poetry Project

I think my blog has less total views than from last week.
How does that even happen?
I work at the library, and I love books. For our final project, which involves some sort of community poetry-ing, I decided to do something in the library.
So my idea is as follows. I'm going to pay attention to what sort of books are popular, or simply one that catches my eye, and insert poems inside of them, written on either sticky notes, or slips of paper. That way, someone will have a beautiful surprise waiting for them as they read about Dick and Jane.
I think it would be cool to have multiple poems in the same book too. Ideally, as they read on, they stumble across more and more poems, but most likely, by the time they come across the second, they'll probably rifle through to find the others. Either way, I think it's a refreshing little experiment.
I also want to target some less exciting books--those that are arguable "least" creative. The irony! They poetry!
That's my first choice, but if that doesn't quite make the cut, I'd also like to just start an impromptu poetry message board, but sticking a large sheet of paper to one of the columns or bookshelves, where people can write their own poetry. Ooo, or better yet, maybe at the end of the inserts in the books (for the first idea), I can leave instructions telling the person to leave their own little poem adventure. Exciting.
Working there, it wouldn't be difficult to check on either project.
Tell me what you think, internet people!

1 comment:

  1. I think that's an awesome idea! I actually wish I'd thought of that!

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