A “found poem†is a poem made of a group of words not originally intended as a poem, but distilled from its context and arranged effectively on the page using white space and enjambment. For example, the end of this story might be arranged this way:
The silence
of his wife, going about her business whilst he
worried, nine years
he worried, turned from
her
to this problem or that
if you search
one face you turn
your back
on another.
Choose a segment of this story that seems especially vivid and significant. Experiment with arrangements on the page that seem most effective in appropriateness and/or tension between the content and the form. If another student has chosen the same passage as you have, compare your versions.