Adam Rex - 47
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Greg Pincus
Apr 6, 2020, 4:11:39 AM4/6/20
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Today's poem is a wonderful two person video performance of Adam Rex's 47 (featuring the poet himself), and it's well worth checking out here: https://gottabook.blogspot.com/2020/04/adam-rex-47.html
(video and poem © Adam Rex. All rights reserved.)
And then... what about making your own list poem (or as Adam said more specifically... a Crazy List poem)? There's a lot of freedom in creating one, and you can use that freedom to rhyme (or not!) wild things together. To get you started, here's a prompt straight from the poet himself:
"Go and clean your room - I want it spotless!" Father said.
Here's a list of things that I can fit beneath my bed:
I'll leave my list in the comments here.... And I hope you'll come on back all through April for more poetry of all sorts.
And then... what about making your own list poem (or as Adam said more specifically... a Crazy List poem)? There's a lot of freedom in creating one, and you can use that freedom to rhyme (or not!) wild things together. To get you started, here's a prompt straight from the poet himself:
"Go and clean your room - I want it spotless!" Father said.
Here's a list of things that I can fit beneath my bed:
I'll leave my list in the comments here.... And I hope you'll come on back all through April for more poetry of all sorts.
Greg
gottabook at hotmail dot com
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