A few months ago, I bought a magnetic poetry kit for something silly in the office. I put a few of the words on the fridge in our staff room and added to it as time went on. Today I finished putting all of the words on there. This is what it looks like at present. Every so often I mess it up and people start all over. The person who wrote the "sometimes I wonder if there is a puppy in all this fluff" complained that the workds were limiting as his comment was "do you think that I wanted to ask if there was a puppy in fluff?"
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Neat to see something on magnetic poetry. I was in Minneapolis at their central library, where they had displays of Minneapolis inventions, including Magnetic Poetry! It was quite the rags-to-riches success story (originally they packed them up into little metal tins they had handy) but the part of the display that hit me most was a letter they got, from parents of an autistic kid. The child had no interest in learning how to read & write, until on a whim they gave him Magnetic Poetry and he suddenly became fascinated in putting words together and asking "does this make sense?!". I'm paraphrasing, but overall it was a neat story about how a fun thing can become a deeply meaningful thing. Like poetry itself, come to think of it...
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