Description
Write an Erasure poem on any passages from the book "Of Poetry and Protest" This is a activism through poetry class.
Erasure poetry,
also known as blackout poetry,
a form of found poetry wherein a poet takes an
existing text and erases, blacks out, or otherwise
obscures a large portion of the text, creating
a whole new work from what remains.
Directions
*Choose any passage(s) of text that you have read, from the books we are using in class to create your own poem.
*You may incorporate other sources of text such as a dictionary text, magazine text, graphic novel text, instructions or a social media post.
*Use the text and black out or cross out all words and phrases you WILL NOT use in the poem.
*The words are phrases left, become the bits and pieces of the new (FOUND) poem you are creating.
*When you turn in the poem, please send pictures of all the text sources you used and include a bibliography
Explanation & Answer
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