Wave Books has put together an online erasure-maker. (If you’re unfamiliar with erasures, they’re poems that are made by erasing or otherwise covering up words within a found text, producing poetry ...
As a poet, Erin Dorney is a bit of a magician. She can make airy poems appear from the dense text of an obscure ornithology book or create illuminating epiphanies from the canned answers a jaded ...
Writer and poet E. Kristin Anderson ’05 is finding original poetry hiding in the pages of her newspapers, and she’s encouraging others to do the same. In a recent article in The New York Times, ...
Isobel O’Hare/Rich Fury/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images And, as artists tend to do, she has reacted through her work to the sexual misconduct allegations and the ensuing, wide-scale ...
Poet and essayist Isobel O’Hare has offered a poignant response to the #MeToo movement, using apology statements from celebrity sexual predators to create powerful erasure poetry. In one example, ...
A pattern has emerged with every new allegation of sexual misconduct. After the bombshell comes an "apology" letter — now the accused's ubiquitous and perfunctory mechanism for responding. Many have ...