Poetry Challenge #123-Library Shelfie Day

What’s on your shelf?

Hooray! It’s Library Shelfie Day!

Observed every 4th Wednesday in January, (Jan 24, 2020) Library Shelfie Day was founded by the NYPL as a way to celebrate and share our books by arranging a few favorites or entire collections on a shelf.

Take a picture and share it on social media with the hashtag #LiibraryShelfieDay to share on social media. As we do, let’s observe Library Shelfie Day with a poem.

Poetry Challenge #124

Great First Words

 After you’ve chosen a few of your favorite books . . .

After you’ve arranged them into a social media worthy collection (and posted or not) . . .

Let’s use your collection to create a poem.

Write 3 to 5 of your chosen book titles on a paper. These titles will form the basis of your poem. How you arrange them is entirely up to you. You may choose to use the titles exactly as they appear or mix words and phrases around. Feel free to add words to improve the poem. Or change the form of the words. However, there is one rule: You must use every word from every title. 

Set your timer for 7 minutes

Don’t think about it too much; just do it!

Start writing!

Here’s mine! Now, show me yours!

Here’s mine! Now, show me yours!

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than 1380 days ago (who’s counting?) We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.

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