The golden shovel is a poetic form created by Terrance Hayes and inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks.
“shovel” flickr photo by tamaki shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
Here are the rules for the Golden Shovel:
- Take a line (or lines) from a poem you admire.
- Use each word in the line (or lines) as an end word in your poem.
- Keep the end words in order.
- Give credit to the poet who originally wrote the line (or lines).
- The new poem does not have to be about the same subject as the poem that offers the end words.
- If you pull a line with six words, your poem would be six lines long. If you pull a stanza with 24 words, your poem would be 24 lines long. And so on.
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