Herm Card is the City Eagle's roving street reporter and photographer as well as the Eagle's Poetry Editor.
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He is an English teacher, poet, educational consultant, and motivational speaker. He has been a college baseball player and coach, military officer, tournament squash player and NCAA baseball umpire. He is also a Museum Educator at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and co-editor of the academic journal, "The English Record."
The beauty of found poetry is that you merely have to find it -- you don’t have to write it. Found poetry requires you to merely find a piece of poetic prose and insert the appropriate line breaks to create poetic form. (Poetry purists may decry this as an abomination and counter to the essence of poetry, and they are entitled to their opinion. They do not need to read further.) Your source can be nearly anything that can take poetic form with a minimum of editing. It is best when it is word for word from the source.
Signs and other public documents make great sources...
