Introduction

Collage poetry is a form of artistic writing. It takes words, phrases, or sentences from existing texts, such as books, magazines, and newspapers, and recombines them into new poetry. It emphasizes the artistic expression between new and old text. It is also free and innovative.

🎥 “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write peotry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But peotry, beauty, romance, love…these are what we stay alive for.”(Schulman 2003)

Let’s start collage poetry creation! Anyone can be an artist!

🎨 📖 🤗👇🏻

Artist-Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist and collage artist. In 1979, she formed her signature style using large-scale black-and-white images. She reuses found images and pairs them with brief, pithy phrases printed in Futura Bold or Helvetica Extra Bold font. The text strips are in black, white, or red. Most of her artworks deal with feminism, consumerism, desire, etc. She often borrowed images from magazines and placed them in new contexts.

Barbara Kruger at ACCA, Melbourne

Materials you needed

1. TOOLS:

• glue stick

• scissors

2. MATERIALS:

• book, nespaper, leaflet,or magazine (any material you have left unused)

• blank notebook, paper, or tissue

• marker pen, leaves, or crayon (something that will inspire you)

materials and tools-by Ying Duan

Getting start !(18 minuets)

PART 1. Brainstorming (2 minutes)

Step 1. Find a quiet place and spend 2 minutes reflecting. Thinking about what happened in the last few days or the last month. Looking for deep memories.

Step 2. 📝Write down keywords on paper. It can be an activity or a person; it can be a scene that you have seen or a social issue you care about. In short, it is a memory and emotion that you feel deeply and want to record.

💭 On which day did you see a beautiful sunset🌅? What colour it is? Where did you spend an enjoyable afternoon with a cute dog🐶? In which restaurant did you have a delicious dinner🍽️? What was the taste like? …

find topic-by Ying Duan

PART 2. Creating (9 minutes)

Step 1. Read books, newspapers, or magazines to collect words, and phrases you need. And cut them out with scissors✂️

cut off words-by Ying Duan

Step 2. Arrange the words and phrases to create sentences.

💡Key Point: these sentences can express your emotions and thoughts fully.

arrange words-by Ying Duan

Step 3. Design the layout, and glue it onto paper or notebook.

glue words-by Ying Duan

PART 3. Enhancing (8 minutes)

Step 1. Decorate the page with the images. You can use any free materials (you get them in supermarkets, school clubs, or museum, etc.)materials-by Ying Duan

enhance with image-by Ying Duan

Step 2.Draw the graphics you want with a marker pen (or leaf, tissue or petal)

The creation is complete! Show your collage poetry!

• You can decorate your collage poetry in your room or give it to friends as a gift🎁!

collage poetry-by Ying Duan

Read your peotry (2 minuets)

• Reflect deeply on your memories and evoke emotions. Read your poem loudly to peers! (peer feedback)

🎨works show🩷

Schulman, Tom. Dead Poets Society (1989) : Shooting Script. First electronic edition. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2003.

Collage poetry: anyone can be an ‘artist’! © 2 by Y is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 

feature image © 2024 by y is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 

““Untitled” (You Rule by Pathetic Display) ―by Barbara Kruger, offset lithograph and silkscreen, 1982 🎨” by anokarina is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

“Barbara Kruger at ACCA, Melbourne” by Zoom Zoom from Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

materials © 2024 by y is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 

materials and tools © 2024 by y is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 

find topic © 2024 by y is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 

cut off words © 2024 by y is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 

arrange words © 2024 by y is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 

glue words © 2024 by y is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 

enhance with image © 2024 by y is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 

draw the page © 2024 by y is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 

collage poetry © 2024 by y is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 

collage poetry show © 2024 by y is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0