This is such a great idea we had to share it. Over on our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/PrimaryEnglishCoventry we’ve done a few of our own. What book Spine Poetry could you create? We can’t wait to see what you come up with.
As adult summer reading at Cedar mill continues to roll on, I want to look back at an event that I really enjoyed: Book Spine Poetry. The idea is to take library books and arrange them so that the titles come together into something meaningful, funny, or somewhere in between. For example, three titles can become a line like this:
If Tomorrow Comes
Remember Me
Without Fear
I had an enjoyable time picking out carts of books with fun titles for the event, sometimes finding books already arranged by coincidence. I often find myself reading the titles in shelf order just to see if the books have anything to say to me. Here are a few of the poems crafted by the attendees:
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