Azaborowski-UGP

Unfamiliar Genre Project Proposal

Ashley Zaborowski

Project:poetry/poems

Why Interested: I have always been a fan of famous writers such as Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, and E.E Cummings. Although i have always been a fan as well as an avid reader of poetry i have not spent much time attempting to write my own. I would love to be able to sit down and let my feelings/thoughs/dreams ect..flow from my mind to the paper and all miracuralously rhyme and meet the criteria to be a poem. This project will challenge me to open up and let my feelings and thoughts become the main focus as structure and puncuation take the back seat.

What you know:

The genre of poetry is extremely large, as i would like to try a little of everything, i will be experimenting and learning alot about form and function of different types of poetry. This will take more work on my part to hunt down a few different styles of poetry and to understand their structure before attempting my own writing. I do know that the range of poetry is from a short haiku to a sonnet to a lyrical ballod.

== You need to narrow down your genre, because your reading should be mostly in the genre you want to write. If you like unstructured poetry, consider free verse, spoken word poetry or two-voice poetry. If you like structured verse, consider ballad, rondeau, or sestina. But find something you like and read a lot of them. ==