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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...