[Newspoetry] Newspoetry assignments for credit card companies

gillespie william k gillespi at uiuc.edu
Thu Feb 22 11:38:23 CST 2001


Write a poem about what you would do if you could get a credit card in
anybody's name you wanted.

Write a poem built to fit a credit card application.

Apply the idea of the credit card as a metaphor to some other domain.

Apply some other domain as a metaphor for how credit cards could work
differently.

Apply for a credit card, or several dozen, in the name of GW Bush 1600
Pennsylvania avenue. 

Write a poem using lines of four words, each with four letters.

Write a glowing response to a poem nobody has written yet: give it a cash
award.

Write a poem for the Chase Manhattan bank. (read the last chapter of
_White Out_)

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w o r d
w o r k
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