Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Collages Anyone?


Have you every complained about making a collage in school?  Almost everyone has, but the collage has been around a long time.  It appears in graphic work and in written work.

Faculty Book Spine Poem
Way back in really olden times, some Roman poets and scholars thought this would be a good way to have fun and spark their own creativity.  The rules were simple: 
  1. Use bits and pieces of someone else’s poem 
  2. Make a new poem
The official name of joining these bits of other author’s words was cento, a Latin word meaning a piece of patchwork.

At the McClellan Library we are celebrating National Poetry Month by creating book spine poems with books that are in our library.  Drop in make a poem or sentence. MJH

"cento, n.". OED Online. March 2012. Oxford University Press. 3 April 2012 <http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/29675?redirectedFrom=cento>.

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