This Slice of Life Challenge has been like an online class, writing community, support group all in one neat package. The inspirations I have gotten, along with teaching ideas and life lessons, have been invaluable to me. Another slicer did a book spine poem. See Teacher Dance. Like the villanelle, this was a new one for me. I can’t wait to try it with my students and watch them pull books off the shelf. A creative use of the classroom library. Will the librarian allow us to do it in the school library?
Creating my own book spine poem, I stacked some of my books about writing. We writers collect books that give us advice. Some of my books are about my own personal writing, some for teaching writing. I sculpted the stack to try to make the titles work together, but I still wanted to insert text. Reminds me of working with paste pot poetry or magnetic poetry.
For more information on the book spine cento challenge, check out this blog: 100 Scope Notes.