Creating an erasure poem means finding your voice lurking in another’s words. It can be a way to start writing when words fail. By E. Kristin Anderson The past year has been difficult for many people.

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 ...

There’s an old riddle that goes: what gets bigger the more you take away? The answer is a hole, but it could also be Holly Lyn Walrath’s (she/they) brand of erasure poetry, which is getting a massive ...

Scattered words and white spaces. That's what it looks like to flip through Dallas Poet Laureate Joaquín Zihuatanejo’s newest book, Occupy Whiteness. The book is a collection of short poems and essays ...