Cathy Salit’s book ‘Performance Breakthrough’ inspired this after reflection. One of the fabulous exercises she offers in her book is a creative challenge called “create with crap”.
Create with Crap Exercise
The next time somebody says or does something that you think is stupid, irrelevant, or problematic, write a poem, draw a cartoon, or make up a song about it.
By Cathy Salit
I like her notion that “creativity applies everywhere”. The poem writing was to me a moment of slowing down and having an unhurried and open reflection on something that bothered me.
Here my poem as answer to some crap that happened to me:
Sitting in rows
Facing
Bullet points
Standing up
Turning to faces
Weaving stories
From lines to circle
Creating
Together
Another principle in Salit’s book is to make your partner look good. So, I am certainly not revealing where this crap happened. It happens anywhere in the world all the time. For my part, I will stick to this crap poem exercise, it is cathartic and mind opening.
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14/06/2019 at 11:48 am
what a great approach to crap! poetry has a potential yet to be tapped to a much larger extent than now 🙂