Whatโs the difference between Found, Erasure, Blackout and Redacted Poetry?
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3 min readJun 20, 2019
Since itโs growing popularity in recent years thanks to Austin Kleon and other artists; the art of creating poetry from existing text has bore several names: blackout poetry, redacted poetry, found poetry, and erasure poetry. These poetry forms are similar; yet not all the same. Keep reading to understand the difference between these poetic forms and types.
Whatโs the difference between blackout, erasure, found, and redacted poetry?
Visually stunning and poetically striking images of poems derived from existing text flood Instagram and Pinterest every day. Hashtags #BlackoutPoetry, #RedactedPoetry, #FoundPoetry, and #ErasurePoetry; seem to be used interchangeably. However, each of these words is not a synonym for theโฆ
