Erasure poetry

title: Erasure Poetry layout: note date: 09-08-2022 last_modified_at: 2023-12-08 12:09 tags:

• Poeticform ost of it to create something new. Also known as blackout poems.

I’ve been making erasure poetry since 2016 on my Instagram. [[Austin Kleon]] inspired me at first with his newspaper poems.

I start with looking for interesting words, circling them, then building up sentences from there. I tend not to have a plan, but see what is within the text. It’s very subconscious, very [[Diffused Mode]]. If two people were given the same text they would produce two very different erasure poems.

I use a lot of music review magazines as they have interesting word choices.

It’s a way to [[Transform Existing Work]].