Erasure Poetry
Take a magazine, newspaper or other text and erase most 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 ]].
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