FOUND POEM Definition & Meaning

found poem

a composition made by combining fragments of such printed material as newspapers, signs, or menus, and rearranging them into the form of a poem.

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First recorded in 1965–70; by analogy with found object

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Writing a good found poem — and in this case, an erasure — requires the poet to intervene on the source text.

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For July 4, Ms. Truax created a “found poem” by extracting lines from Alexander Hamilton’s essays.

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For the July 4 holiday weekend, she produced a “found poem” by extracting words from an Alexander Hamilton essay.

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Carefully paste each word down, and now you have your own found poem.

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Gregg found poems in nature, in urban settings like a shelter for homeless women, in broken relationships.

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