#erasure poetry

[fixing-bad-posts]

trans activists aren't anti-women trans is hope and trans is liberation.

[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

[brawledout]

[faintpress]

ice

[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

[stepfordwivespoems]

An open-mind

has no emotional

secretaries

—

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

—

[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.)

[fixing-bad-posts]

gender force go!!!

[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 19

suburban wives

playing nicey nice

for important men

happy now?

remix poem with words from page 92,

Levin, Ira: The Stepford Wives (1972)

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

photo credit:  itakayuki

[shloks23]

October 16

Source: An erasure culled from p. 64 of The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin.

[free-my-boy-grumbot]

do you guys like this poem i made

[poetryoutloud]

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