Bag of Words

We had fun at the Maker Faire with bags of words! People of all ages made poems by taking individual words out of a bag and glueing them onto paper in the random order in which they were taken out. This method comes from Tristan Tzara’s instructions for making a Dadaist poem. We provided the paper bags full of words, cut out from newspapers, stories, and essays. Here are a few of the results: