Where She Went

I love book spine poet­ry, and it’s a great way to get young writ­ers to engage with both books and poet­ry-writ­ing. Check out your own shelves and see what sto­ries emerge.

Here are some of my own efforts to show you how easy it can be.


Writing Road Trip | Book Spine Poetry - Where She Went | Lisa Bullard

Where She Went

Look­ing for Alaska 
Chas­ing Vermeer 
Track­ing dad­dy down 
Look­ing for Alibrandi
In search of Mockingbird
Where the kiss­ing nev­er stops


Writing Road Trip | Book Spine Poetry - Where She Went | Lisa Bullard

Reality check

Real­i­ty check:
Don’t you know there’s a war on?


Writing Road Trip | Book Spine Poetry - Where She Went | Lisa Bullard

You Split

You
Split
Just like that
As easy as falling off the face of the Earth
Down the rab­bit hole 
Absolute­ly, pos­i­tive­ly not
Okay for now


Writing Road Trip | Book Spine Poetry - Where She Went | Lisa Bullard

The Sky is Everywhere

The sky is everywhere
I’ll be there
Forever


Check out this post by Travis Jonker for more infor­ma­tion about book spine poems. Need more inspi­ra­tion, check out the Book Spine Poem Gal­leries from 2011, 2013, and 2014.

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Laura Purdie Salas
3 years ago

I love these, Lisa! That last one is so comforting…