WebSlam VIII – Round 3

Prompts

Submissions are closed for Round 3.

Students responded to the following prompts for Round 3. Scroll down to read their work.

1. Write a poem with food as its central focus. Be specific to create tone and meaning. Consider using the Internet to find facts, recipes and stories that might flesh out your poem.
   
   
2. Write a poem about a work of art. The poem can be about something in your home, something your mother or father made, or something you saw in a gallery or museum. Describe the work as clearly as possible—write a picture of it for your reader. Avoid value-laden words such as “beautiful” or “good.”
   
   
3. Create a poem using a modern take on a classical form: sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, or sestina.
   Sonnet: A short poem with fourteen lines, usually ten-syllable rhyming lines, divided into two, three, or four sections.
   Villanelle: A 19-line poem, originally French, that uses only two rhymes and consists of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain.
   Pantoum: A form of verse in which the second and fourth lines of each four-line verse are repeated as the first and third lines of the following verse
   Sestina: A poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, with the last words of the first six lines repeated, in different order, at the ends of the other lines. Also called sextain.
   
   

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