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“Of Flowers”
Jessica Cory created “Of Flowers” from the Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper (1653). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Jessica Cory writes: I challenged...
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“Drift”
Susan April created “Drift” from Elementary Geology by Edward Hitchcock (1854 edition). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Susan April writes: This poem was...
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“Bay Tree”
Susan Kay Anderson created “Bay Tree” from the Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper (1653). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Susan Kay Anderson writes: I...
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“The Sun”
Wilda Morris created “The Sun” from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Wilda Morris writes: I selected Moby-Dick as my text...
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“Drinking Daisies”
Kate Falvey created “Drinking Daisies” from the Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper (1653). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Kate Falvey writes: Culling from...
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“A Full Accounting of the Fruits of Mrs. Dalloway”
Susan Barry-Schulz created “A Full Accounting of the Fruits of Mrs. Dalloway” from Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it,...
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“Angelica”
Michelle Lynch created “Angelica” from the Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper (1653). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Michelle Lynch writes: This poem was...
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“Green Time”
Pamela Hobart Carter created “Green Time” from the Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper (1653). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Pamela Hobart Carter writes:...
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an August gathering
Last week we published the last poem in our line-up of weekly postings for Heron Tree volume 10. This week we invite you to visit or re-visit the poems we’ve published since our first volume 10...
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updating
We launched the Heron Tree website in August 2012 and published Heron Tree volume 1 in the course of 2013. We are proud to have reached volume 10 this year, and we’ve published some pamphlets and...
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Volume 10 collection, Volume 11 submissions
The PDF of volume 10 is now available for free download! In it you’ll find work by Maggie Rosen, Deborah Purdy, Lynn Pattison, Wilda Morris, Erica Meraz, Michelle Lynch, M. E. Goelzer, Pamela Hobart...
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Volume 11 submissions
Heron Tree volume 11 will be dedicated to found poems composed from sources published in or before 1928. Between 15 January 2024 and 1 May 2024 we will be accepting submissions in the following...
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Plans for volume 11
We’ll begin posting volume 11 poems in August 2024. Until then, we encourage you to visit or revisit the poems in our archives. Thank you for stopping by, and we hope you’ll come again in August!
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2 poems by Maria L. Berg
We begin our posting of volume 11 poems with 2 nonets by Maria L. Berg. “And risk being infinitely happy forever” was created from The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort (1919). Please click here to...
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3 poems by Karen George
Karen George created 3 erasures, each from a different page of The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort (1919). Please click here to read [The crow, holy / shadow]. Please click here to read [May the...
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2 poems by Jim Murdoch
Jim Murdoch created “The Gates to Mesopia” from Line & Form by Walter Crane (1900) and “Transference” from Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson, translated by F. L. Pogson (1910). Please click here...
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“Cold Imagination”
Mike Ferguson created “Cold Imagination” from Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (1818). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Mike Ferguson...
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“The Radiating Line”
Colleen Kennedy created “The Radiating Line” from Line & Form by Walter Crane (1900). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Colleen Kennedy writes: Inspired by...
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2 poems by Deborah Purdy
Deborah Purdy created “The Lost Explorers from Somewhere” from The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort (1919) and “Memory and Prophecy” from Under the Trees and Elsewhere by Hamilton Wright Mabie...
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“Emily Dickinson”
Jan Chronister describes “Emily Dickinson” and the process of composing it this way: This is an attempt at a lipogram using only words found in Emily Dickinson’s name. I made a list of all the...
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