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“Father”
Melissa Leaf Nelson created “Father” from A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich (1928). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Melissa Leaf Nelson writes:...
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2 poems by Mary Alice Dixon
Mary Alice Dixon created “Sensible Shoes” and “Time Passes” from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927). All the words in “Sensible Shoes” are taken from a single page of Woolf’s text. Please...
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“Science Gossip: Leaves from Modern Trees”
Susan Kay Anderson created “Science Gossip: Leaves from Modern Trees” from The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort (1919). Science Gossip is a periodical which Fort often cites. Please click here to...
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“Rapturous”
Faith Allington created “Rapturous” from “The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield (1922). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Faith Allington writes: This piece...
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“The Moon This Night”
Basiliké Pappa created “The Moon This Night” from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1872). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Basiliké Pappa writes: “The...
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an autumn break
We’re taking a break from posting new work this week, but we invite you to read or re-read the volume 11 poems we’ve published so far. The links will take you directly to each poem’s PDF, and after...
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“What My Mother Left Out of the Story”
Sarah Cummins Small created “What My Mother Left Out of the Story” from “The Three Bears” in Tick-Tock Tales for Children, edited by Watty Piper (1922). Please click here to read. About the poem and...
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“The Whiteness of —”
Olivia Mettler created “The Whiteness of —” from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Olivia Mettler writes: I wanted to...
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“The Boundary of Structure”
Shloka Shankar created “The Boundary of Structure” from Line & Form by Walter Crane (1900). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Shloka Shankar writes:...
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a week’s rest
We’re taking a break from posting this week, but we’ll be back on the evening of December 4th with a new poem. In the meanwhile, we’re thankful for your readership, and we hope that you’ll browse the...
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2 poems by Janina Aza Karpinska
Janina Aza Karpinska has composed two centos: “Despised and Rejected, Echo Returns,” draws from “Despised and Rejected” and “Echo Returns,” both by Christina Rossetti (1862 and 1866, respectively)....
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“Line as Language”
Jennifer Hernandez created “Line as Language” from Line & Form by Walter Crane (1900). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Jennifer Hernandez writes: My...
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3 poems by Diane LeBlanc
Diane LeBlanc constructed two pieces by combining words and images from Line & Form by Walter Crane (1900). Please click here to read “Decorative Treatment of Birds.” And here to read “Organic...
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year and Happy Public Domain Day from Heron Tree! We’ll be back with a new poem on the evening of 8 January, and we’ll be publishing volume 11 poems weekly through mid-February. But our call...
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“Anomalistics Aggregate”
Kate Falvey created “Anomalistics Aggregate” from The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort (1919). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Kate Falvey writes: I...
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“Forms/s from line/s”
David Q. Hutcheson-Tipton worked with Line & Form by Walter Crane (1900) to create “Form/s from line/s.” Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, David Q....
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2 poems by Jackie McClure
We present 2 remixes by Jackie McClure: “A Bequest” uses words from [I celebrate myself] in Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1855 edition). Please click here to read. And “Having Been Sown” rearranges...
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“Reliquary”
Jai Michelle Louissen created “Reliquary” from The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort (1919). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Jai Michelle Louissen writes: I...
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“An Outcry”
Ali Znaidi created “An Outcry” from The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort (1919). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Ali Znaidi writes: This erasure poem was...
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4 poems by Pamela Hobart Carter
Pamela Hobart Carter created 4 erasures from Line & Form by Walter Crane (1900): Please click here to read “Began.” Please click here to read “Memory is Unlimited.” Please click here to read...
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