Creating an erasure poem means finding your voice lurking in another’s words. It can be a way to start writing when words fail. By E. Kristin Anderson The past year has been difficult for many people.

The raw material for Niina Pollari’s poem “Form N-400 Erasures” is the long, opaquely-worded application form for becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen. Expansive and arduous, the application holds a ...

Poets have been constructing new work by selectively redacting others’ texts for decades, but Instagram and our political moment have spotlit this startling technique Weapon of war, language-game, act ...

Whether it’s from a celebrity interview, a state park brochure, television screenplay or even a textbook, Erin Dorney, a writer and marketing consultant from Mankato has been extracting poetry from ...

Scattered words and white spaces. That's what it looks like to flip through Dallas Poet Laureate Joaquín Zihuatanejo’s newest book, Occupy Whiteness. The book is a collection of short poems and essays ...