Genius Hour Reflection: Post Two
This week marked my first attempt at erasure poetry using Hamilton Spectator articles. It was a heck of a learning curve. I started with an article from the January 20th paper called "City, LIUNA reach a deal on Lister's 'missing tooth'". I thought it was an interesting title, and one that deals with continued development in Hamilton's downtown core. I knew "Missing Tooth" would be the title as soon as I read it. After reading the article, I went through and started picking out words that stood out to me, words that I could re-arrange or combine to find new meanings. I realized so much of the language revolved around economic progress, so I tried to follow that train of thought. You can see what that process looks like below. I thought it was turning out well at this point! I was pulling some meaningful phrases from the article, and while I wasn't sure how I would end it, I loved the intro. Then, in the mundane process of s...
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