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The article offers several tips to find poetry in the pages of a newspaper including choose your materials; find an article; prepare your draft; erase and end result.

ALIEN VS. PREDATOR By Michael Robbins [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers suggestions on creating a cento including skimming through paper for lines that will be spoken, consideration of the layout and pasting lines in the box.

Discusses the book "Incantations," a collection of poetry written by Mayan women. Development of the project, which began when poet Ámbar Past visited the Chiapas highlands in southern Mexico in the early 1970s; Discussion of the Taller Lenateros (Woodlanders' Workshop), a paper and book making collective founded by Past in 1975 at the Chiapas city of San Cristobal de las Casas; Analysis of the books construction and of the poetry included in the work.

On paper, ''To Be Heard'' may sound like the kind of production that's better at ''raising awareness'' than at holding anyone's interest. In a straightforward verite style, it tracks the intertwining trajectories of three underprivileged New York City teenagers whose lives are transformed by their participation in a pedagogically progressive slam-poetry program at University Heights High School in the Bronx. There are inspirational triumphs and painful setbacks, and, yes, the students read their poems in sincerely unguarded performances. But check your cynicism at the ticket booth. ''To Be Heard'' is one of the best documentaries of the year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Poems that the defendant wrote in prison tracked the genre's well-worn themes: injustice, isolation and regret. In neat script on lined paper, the poems, by David Williams IV, were written between December 2009 and August 2010, as Mr. Williams and three other men awaited trial on charges that they had left what they thought were real bombs outside of two Bronx synagogues and had planned to shoot down military cargo planes. ''Cover me like a blanket to conceal me from disdain and hurt,'' Mr. Williams wrote on Dec. 5, 2009. ''25 to life lingers above my head like a dead man's rope.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jung Hyang Kim's abstract paintings on canvas and paper at the Anthony Giordano Gallery at Dowling College are obviously labors of love. Displaying great creativity and attention to detail, they are richly visual, combining narrative, poetry and beauty in ways that are charming and sometimes decorative. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]