- Write a short poem about non-romantic love. This can be friendship, home, family, etc
2. In groups, make these poems into a contrapuntal. The different threads must make sense on their own and woven together. Each person should have 3 lines. Think about sound when putting these poems together. Do you want each voice to be distinct or similar? How will these words sound together? How does your mouth move when speaking these out loud? How fast or slow? Etc. How do you want the poem to look?
(Below is excerpted from The Academy of American Poets Website)
Contrapuntal
Contrapuntal is a poetic form that interweaves two or more poems to create a single poem that can be read in multiple ways, depending on how the poem is designed on the page.
Structure of Contrapuntal Poetry
The theme varies, and there are no structural constraints of meter, which is defined as the measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a line of verse, or rhyme. The key feature of contrapuntal poetry is how the poem appears on the page, thus holding similar visual characteristics of concrete or shape poetry, as well as postmodern aesthetics.
