#erasure poetry

[buttonpoetry]

Progressive erasure from I'd Rather Be Destroyed https://buttonpoetry.com/product/id-rather-be-destroyed/

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Found Poems

Found poetry - created by extracting words, phrases, or longer pieces from a source text and using them to make a poem, reflecting the sequence in which they appeared in the original.

The illustration shows a found poem:

Unlikely options Found in the page Surprising poetry Successfully free In prose pages Visual modes Remarkable experiments Such poetic expression

ERASURE POEM

The result of electronically deleting words from the source text, leaving a residue that is read downwards to form the new poetic text.

The words can be left in their original locations on the page, or can be reorganised into conventional poetic lines.

BLACKOUT POEM

Emerges when a marker pen is used to hide most of the words on a page, leaving a similar residue.

Source ⚜ Word Lists ⚜ Notes & References ⚜ Writing Prompts

[transmisc2]

this is was actually my first erasure poem and i really liked it and have done more since

[degenderates]

an erasure of part i of alfred lord tennyson's "the lady of shalott" / photography by myself, @adamshallperish , & @willemdamonstercock

[faintpress]

ice

[stepfordwivespoems]

An open-mind

has no emotional

secretaries

—

Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 33

—

[ragewrites]

The groupchat has been reading the NYT again, so here’s annie wants to be famous, an erasure from a profile this ‘distinguished’ publication has done on an alleged micro-influencer.

[andreablythe]

I've just made the digital PDF version my first poetry chapbook, Your Molten Heart / A Seed to Hatch, available online (free or pay what you'd like): https://andreablythe.itch.io/your-molten-heart

[immaculatenothing]

October 2, 2024: I'm too close to You

keeping twice the silence —

No electricity ;

i am a dying light.

you'll see another strand of change

winding in the dark

away

quietly

so quick

away and free

down the hallway

to the window

and out

___________________________________________________

Erasure/found poem. Source text: The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin. (Blackstone Edition, Ashland, OR, 2024, pp. 6-8.)

[transmonstera]

laugh in the face of transphobia and be to each other what they will never be to you - an erasure poem about trans resilience and finding joy in your and others' transness using the recent anon message i got lol

[IMAGE ID: a tumblr anon where all transphobic parts are taken out leaving the following: "you laugh at people when they cut you open. you're huge to each other, because who would be enough to them for looking like someone else, except for most who ever lived. there are grey stars decorating the sides of the image. END]

[fearisnear31]

day 12

a German Virgo

an American Taurus

Lobster Newburg and

a pitcher of Bloody Marys

Found poem” composed with words on pg 75-76Levin, Ira: The Stepford Wives (1972)

edition published by Corsair, Constable & Robinson, Ltd, 2011

photo credit: Daniel Norris

[writingisworms]

Easure poems are so unbelievably hard and restrictive. You wouldn't think that they would be, but the words and letters and their order and already locked in place and you can only do so much obliteration about it

[free-my-boy-grumbot]

do you guys like this poem i made

[poetryoutloud]

this tweet was a great prompt (id in alt text)

[lovesby]

being an afterthought: an erasure poem of a caterpillar that eats tortoise shells by deyrup, deyrup, eisner and eisner (linked here) (original text under the cut), sby march 2024

[Text: Being An Afterthought Realizing that plight of an oddity such as this little moth calling attention to existence worth knowing Does not Does not ultimately prove applicable]

[Text: On Being Endangered: An Afterthought Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside from the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish. We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?]

excerpt originally seen in a post by @great-and-small! linked here