In April, National Poetry Month, we made shape poems to inspire the structure of books about the welcome arrival of spring. The idea was to draw a shape that evoked spring, a bird, a bud, for instance, and then to write descriptions and feelings within the shape. To get the idea of shape poems, we made one together about an iris leaf:
smooth promise
succulent
supple sword
aspiring upward
erect
translucent edges
bulging buds
In the past, we've talked about the place of words in our books and noted how some of us resist using them while for others of us words dictate the form of our structures. Interestingly, this month, approaches reversed for some.
Here, with a few binding details still in the works for Susan and Lorraine, are the April books. Click on any image for a closer look.
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| Susan Bissonnette |
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| Pam Wright |
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| Miriam Frischer |
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| Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi |
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| Cait Johnson |
