We have been making poems in class every week, but the most interesting kind of poems that we’ve studied are Book Spine poems. A book spine poem is when you take a few books with titles that could form a sentence, and stack them on top of each other to make a poem. Here are two I did myself:

It was very fun finding the right book titles to fit my poem. Usually when I’m at the library, I’ll just look for things I know I want, and won’t look at other sections of the library. But when I’m looking for the book spine poems, I discover more books that actually look interesting and that I wouldn’t notice before. But, its was hard to find the right books for my poem because I was limited to only the books in the library.

I hope you will try to make your own book spine poems too!