ORCID
Patrick Williams: 0000-0002-6963-8518
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date
2021
Keywords
special collections, pedagogy, literature, poetry
Language
English
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Library and Information Science | Poetry
Description/Abstract
This lesson plan engages students with primary materials as ingredients for creative work, with attention to the ways researchers read and notice in archives and special collections. This hands-on creative activity helps students to identify and analyze many facets of materials in a special collections setting, and it allows students to explore those materials together. Students create found poems based on a prompt distributed by the librarian-instructor and then engage in reflective sharing of the poems. The prompt draws students toward the textual, paratextual, and metadata elements of materials, and the sharing of poems among students highlights the variety of their observations.
ISBN
9780838937518
Recommended Citation
Williams, P. (2021) “Sampling the Hors d'Oeuvres: Exploratory Poetics in Archives & Special Collections.” In The Teaching with Archives & Special Collections Cookbook. Edited by Julie M. Porterfield. Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL).
Creative Commons License
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Additional Information
Chapter 16 in The Teaching with Archives & Special Collections Cookbook. Edited by Julie M. Porterfield. Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), 2021.