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Human expression is never orderly.
​It is a space of disruption.To let ourselves express means to be vulnerable.​It means to invert syntax so as to articulate the visceral. 
Writing Resources
Digital ways to Collage

Language is a Virus

The Lazarus Corporation Cut-Up Links 
Another cut-up machine
Generate random text
Dada Poem Generator
Burroughs Video on Cutups 
Burroughs cut-up poems
Bowie video on cutups 
The Strategy of Simultaneity in Ted Berrigan’s “The Sonnets" 

Erasures

Kenyon Review articles on Erasures

Tom Philips website
Tom Phillips Video
Austin Kleon on Erasures and found poetry

Cento

​John Ashbery audio recording of To a Waterfowl 

Line Sources for To a Waterfowl cento
Wolf Cento by Simone Muench 

Found Poetry Review (archived)
A found poem Dash it by Annie Dillard
Submit your Found Poetry

Pieces to imitate:
 “He waited on the stoop until twilight, pretending to watch the sun melt into the dirty gray Harlem sky. Up and down the street transistor radios clicked on and hummed into the sour air. Men dragged out card tables, laughing. Cars cruised through the garbage and broken glass, older guys showing off their Friday night girls.” 
-Robert Lipsyte “The Contender” 

“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, ‘whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,’ by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, “Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,’ and he would have meant the same thing.”
-Cannery Row, John Steinbeck

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  • The Fissured Tongue Series
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    • The Fissured Tongue Series Guide
    • POETRY BOOK CONTESTS
  • Poetry Contest Results
    • 2024 POETRY BOOK CONTESTS RESULTS
    • Sublingua 2023 Results
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  • About Us
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  • The Art of the Postcard
    • About The Art of the Postcard
    • Art of the Postcard Issue 3
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    • We Are All Artists Exhibit
      • Video Compilation FirehouseArt Center Postcard Exhibit
      • Firehouse Exhibitors 2022
        • Churnage FirehouseArt Center Postcard Exhibit
        • Daniel Staub Weinberg Firehouse Art Center Postcard Exhibit
        • Genevieve Rose Barr Art Center Postcard Exhibit
        • Eva Schultz Firehouse Art Center Postcard Exhibit
        • Samantha Malay Firehouse Art Center Postcard Exhibit
        • D Allen Firehouse Art Center Postcard Exhibit
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        • Sarah Santoni Firehouse Art Center Postcard Exhibit
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        • Jo Goren Firehouse Art Center Postcard Exhibit
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        • Stephanie Johnson Firehouse Art Center Postcard Exhibit
        • Charles J. March III Firehouse Art Center Postcard Exhibit
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        • Grace Desmarais Firehouse Art Center Postcard Exhibit
        • Emily Vieweg Firehouse Art Center Postcard Exhibit
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        • Christian Garduno Firehouse Art Center Postcard Exhibit
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        • Ginny Short Firehouse Art Center Postcard Exhibit
        • Josh Lefkowitz Firehouse Art Center Postcard Exhibit
        • Carolyn Adams Firehouse Art Center Postcard Exhibit
      • We Are All Artists Exhibit Guide
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