Introduction A lipogram poem is a poem written without using one or more chosen letters. The writer deliberately avoids the forbidden letter throughout the poem, creating a challenging form of constrained writing. For example, a poet might write a short poem without using the letter e. The word lipogram comes from Greek roots associated with … Read more
Introduction Blackout poetry is a form of erasure poetry in which you create a new poem by selecting words from an existing text and covering the rest. The surviving words become the poem, while the blacked-out page also becomes part of the artwork. It is often made from newspapers, books, magazines, or other printed material. … Read more
Introduction Have you ever seen a poem shaped like a tree, a heart, or a falling raindrop? That is what concrete poems are all about. Unlike regular poems that sit in neat lines on a page, concrete poems use the way words look on the page as part of the poem itself. The shape and … Read more