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Dec 24, 2009
Nov 05, 2009
Aug 02, 2009
Brenda Murray quoted in Holly Harrison’s Altered Books:
My altered books are different from collage because I’m working with words that are already there on the page. The bundaries set by the text are what make it interesting and challenging. I use a lot of text in my collage work, but it’s different because it’s things I choose—I’m making the story. With altered books, depending on the mood you’re in or the kind of person you are or what’s important to you, you can and will find a story. So the possibilities are endless.
Jul 28, 2009
William Shatner reads Palin’s speech as poetry (via @davehyndman):And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature’s finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time it’s the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn’t it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?
And then in the summertime such extreme summertime about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, than just some months from now, with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that here, Mother Nature wins. It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to the future.See also the poetry of Donald Rumsfeld and the Clinton/Lewinsky Poetry Under Oath.
May 26, 2009
Feb 05, 2009
“ … Poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them …
— Naomi Shihab Nye, from Valentine for Ernest Mann
Dec 15, 2008
» Erasures
Below you will find a number of source texts. Choose one by clicking on the title. You will be sent to a new page where you can click on any word or punctuation mark to make it disappear. Clicking where it was will make it return. By removing much of the text a newly sculpted text (poem) appears.
When you are done creating your poem, you can save it to our archive, print it, or email it. To get a sense of the variety of poems that can be written from a given text, look through our archive. We will be putting up new source texts on a regular basis.
Dec 09, 2008
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