An Exploration of Spine Poetry
I first saw spine poetry a few days ago, when the Strand Bookstore posted a picture of a creation on their Instagram in celebration of National Poetry Month. Since April 1st, they have been posting a new spine poem everyday. I have since discovered that "spine poetry", a poem made up completely of book titles, is quite a popular thing. They are all over many book blogs, Tumblr, and Pinterest - so I decided to dive into my bookshelf, and try some of my own! Here Today , If I Stay , Between Shades of Gray Forget Me Not When Broken Glass Floats. It ended up being harder than I thought, as after throwing a bunch of books that I thought made sense together into a stack, I realized the poem they created made no sense whatsoever! I found myself wanting to cheat a couple of times, thinking if only this book had a "the" in the title, or this one needs a different verb tense. But part of the challenge was making what you ha...