Poetry Games
A collaborative surrealist poetry game, and a playful form where you take an existing text and black out or remove words, leaving behind surprising fragments that create an entirely new poem.
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A collaborative surrealist poetry game
Write two lines, then press Enter. Only your second line will remain visible for the next person. Continue taking turns until you're ready to reveal the complete poem.
The name comes from their first sentence: "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau" ("The exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine").
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A playful form where you take an existing text and black out or remove words, leaving behind surprising fragments that create an entirely new poem.
Click words to erase them.
The technique took off in the 1960s with artist Doris Cross's "Dictionary Columns" and Tom Phillips's innovative book-length project. Ronald Johnson famously erased Milton's Paradise Lost to create Radi Os in 1977.
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