Jessy Assy

My [alliterative] take on what it is like to write poetry.

This was one of my favorite exercises back when I was an undergrad student taking Creative Writing courses at the American University of Beirut. The way this assignment worked was as follows: We would choose any novel we liked, and randomly flip to any page then copy 5 verbs from that page. Then, again, we would flip to another random page and copy 5 nouns. And so the activity continued until we had a collection of random verbs, nouns, subjects, and adjectives. The best part? We had to create as much of a sensical poem as we could from that compiled list.