Erasure is a process by which you can take any text and from it, create a poem.
Below you will find a number of source texts. Choose one by clicking on the title. You will be sent to a new page where you can click on any word or punctuation mark to make it disappear. Clicking where it was will make it return. By removing much of the text a newly sculpted text (poem) appears.
When you are done creating your poem, you can save it to our archive, print it, or email it. To get a sense of the variety of poems that can be written from a given text, look through our archive. We will be putting up new source texts on a regular basis.
Latest Source Texts | Word Count |
| Moby Dick by Herman Melville | 227 |
| Clouds by Aristophanes | 260 |
| Youth Challenges by Clarence B Kelland | 285 |
| History of the Gatling Gun Detachment by John Henry Parker | 458 |
| Bohemian San Francisco by Clarence E. Edwords | 302 |
Latest Poems | Created |
| The Deep by Jackee Sadicario | 2013-03-15 |
| Untitled by Jane Cope | 2013-03-15 |
| Wayside Fires by alina pleskova | 2013-03-15 |
| Wayside Fires by alina pleskova | 2013-03-15 |
| homework2 by Ty-rell Gibbs | 2013-03-13 |
Project conceived by Joshua Beckman and David Hirmes. Design and Code by David Hirmes.
Special thanks to the good folks at NYFA.
Questions? Comments?