Poetry lessons from author/poet Nikki Grimes

Last week at Kindling Words West, we not only spent our days writing, we had an inspirational lesson in the morning to kick-start us. Our lecturer was the famous (and wonderful) Nikki Grimes.  To get just a taste of some of the things she taught us, here's what Lynne Kelly, one of the other writers there, had to say in her blog, Making Stuff Up and Writing It Down about our Found Poetry lesson.

I was one of the other writers who created a "found poem"from that snowstorm article as well.
Here's mine:

READY FOR WORST, NEW YORK GETS FIRST MAJOR SNOWFALL

Snow

Storm

Freakish Halloween blizzard

Travel advisory

Trains running losing track

Bright Winter

Happy sledding: “Do it again”