We're back -- from 5 weeks in France and another month to get over jet lag and catch up a little. We're putting the link of the week first -- http://erasures.wavepoetry.com because the subject of this week's Galaxy is the erasure and this website provides text to use in an erasure and it enables you to actually make the erasure on-line.
You make an erasure by taking an existing source (newspaper column, poem, two pages of an old encyclopedia, a novel, pretty much any piece of writing) and erasing most of the words, leaving behind words and phrases that, when read, compose the poem. You can use the exposed language in order as it appears in the original text, or you can reorganize it.
Susan Whitney, a Red Sofa poet who also attends our weekly workshops, used the erasure technique to powerful effect by taking two completely different news articles and mixing up the "leftover" words. Her poem, 12 Laments for the Old City, won a first prize in the recent Oregon Poetry Association contest.
You make an erasure by taking an existing source (newspaper column, poem, two pages of an old encyclopedia, a novel, pretty much any piece of writing) and erasing most of the words, leaving behind words and phrases that, when read, compose the poem. You can use the exposed language in order as it appears in the original text, or you can reorganize it.
Susan Whitney, a Red Sofa poet who also attends our weekly workshops, used the erasure technique to powerful effect by taking two completely different news articles and mixing up the "leftover" words. Her poem, 12 Laments for the Old City, won a first prize in the recent Oregon Poetry Association contest.
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