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All I have to say about poetics
Figure 1: a page from a treatise on poetics, via Google Books and HyperSnap 5. Figure 2: a found poetics, via HyperSnap's eraser tool. A reflection prompted by a found videopoem.
View ArticleDelusions of an erasure poet: the shadow text
There is — I’ve come to feel — a text within the text, made up of the words and phrases that lodge most firmly in our minds as we read and the hidden relationships we sense between them. Can it be...
View ArticleThe Pepys erasure project so far
In accordance with Marly Youmans’ suggestion in comments, I want to share a few observations about my on-going erasure poetry project with the Diary of Samuel Pepys. First, I should say that the...
View Article2,500 erasure poems for National Poetry Month
Readers of my Pepys erasure poems might be interested in Pulitzer Remix: Eighty-five poets are creating found poetry from the 85 Pulitzer Prize-winning works of fiction as part of Pulitzer Remix, a...
View ArticleErasing Shakespeare
The Rain in My Purse: I don’t buy the oft-touted view that one must find something totally new in erasure poetry, that the found poem should be completely independent of the source text. If that’s the...
View ArticleThe world’s greatest exercise in erasure poetry, now at 5.0
A review of the 5th edition of The Humument at The Found Poetry Review: To call it a novel would be a misnomer; to categorize it as a poetry collection would be just as false. This brings us back to...
View ArticleWill Ashford and the art of erasure
If Tom Phillips’ A Humument is the gold standard for artistic erasure poetry, Will Ashford’s new work The Gospel According to Art should be a platinum hit. His erasures are not only image-rich, but use...
View ArticleJenni Baker’s “Erasing Infinite”
Another beautiful, artistic erasure poetry project: Erasing Infinite, which the creator, poet and Found Poetry Review editor Jenni B. Baker, describes as “A found poetry project erasing David Foster...
View ArticleDelusions of an erasure poet: the observer effect
Just as (we are told) there are no atheists in foxholes, so the erasure poet comes to believe that there are no truly prosaic passages in a passage of prose. You can only look at arrangements of words...
View ArticleDelusions of a erasure poet: the marksman
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Delusions of an Erasure PoetRows of targets on the side of a barn with an arrow in every bull’s-eye. “An expert marksman must live here!” Or a fool who fires at...
View ArticleDelusions of an erasure poet: the shadow text
There is — I’ve come to feel — a text within the text, made up of the words and phrases that lodge most firmly in our minds as we read and the hidden relationships we sense between them. Can it be...
View ArticleThe Pepys erasure project so far
In accordance with Marly Youmans’ suggestion in comments, I want to share a few observations about my on-going erasure poetry project with the Diary of Samuel Pepys. First, I should say that the...
View Article2,500 erasure poems for National Poetry Month
Readers of my Pepys erasure poems might be interested in Pulitzer Remix: Eighty-five poets are creating found poetry from the 85 Pulitzer Prize-winning works of fiction as part of Pulitzer Remix, a...
View ArticleErasing Shakespeare
The Rain in My Purse: I don’t buy the oft-touted view that one must find something totally new in erasure poetry, that the found poem should be completely independent of the source text. If that’s the...
View ArticleThe world’s greatest exercise in erasure poetry, now at 5.0
A review of the 5th edition of The Humument at The Found Poetry Review: To call it a novel would be a misnomer; to categorize it as a poetry collection would be just as false. This brings us back to...
View ArticleWill Ashford and the art of erasure
If Tom Phillips’ A Humument is the gold standard for artistic erasure poetry, Will Ashford’s new work The Gospel According to Art should be a platinum hit. His erasures are not only image-rich, but use...
View ArticleJenni Baker’s “Erasing Infinite”
Another beautiful, artistic erasure poetry project: Erasing Infinite, which the creator, poet and Found Poetry Review editor Jenni B. Baker, describes as “A found poetry project erasing David Foster...
View ArticleDelusions of an erasure poet: the observer effect
Just as (we are told) there are no atheists in foxholes, so the erasure poet comes to believe that there are no truly prosaic passages in a passage of prose. You can only look at arrangements of words...
View ArticleDelusions of a erasure poet: the marksman
Rows of targets on the side of a barn with an arrow in every bull’s-eye. “An expert marksman must live here!” Or a fool who fires at random and paints a target where each arrow lands? It’s difficult...
View ArticleHuman Resources: erasure poetry meets videopoetry
Changes of State. That’s the working title of my book-length manuscript of prose + micropoetry, which draws equally upon my lived experience, dreams, and nightmares. In the last category, I have a...
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