#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

[zinesbyrowan]

erasure/blackout poetry zine!! this one was so much fun, even though the poems themselves tend toward depressing imagery or subject matter. I need to figure out how to make printable PDFs of my zines so I can make more interactive bits like in this one and share them more easily! I really encourage you to try making erasure poetry out of anything you have access to, whether that's old poetry books from school, or prose books you own that you don't like or don't read anymore, or even writing your own poetry to use! hope you enjoy :)

[rain-rainynights]

you are valid. even when the world tries to erase you or revert because of perceived gods, it does not erase the truth you cannot change and you live by everyday. and if the world will keep on trying to ignore or tell you how it thinks you should live and love, i will tell you just as blatantly that you are valid in the ways it attempts to erase. and i will say those three a hundred, a thousand, a million times over and over if it can bring you an ounce of solace: you are valid

[crosswire]

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

[ragewrites]

Earlier tonight I stumbled upon an archived interview with the author of a so-called Odyssey ‘retelling’ that left me so incensed, I had to make an erasure out of it just to feel as though something positive has come out of the encounter.

[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

—

[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