Radio Show Outline

Poetic Form: Found Poetry, focusing on blackout/erasure poetry

Poet(s): I’m not exactly sure yet, but I do find Ezra Pound interesting

Forms:

• Do political work in particular historical contexts
• A lot of found poetry is based on government documents. At the very least, most erasure poetry makes some sort of political statement.
• Constrain
• In erasure poetry, you are given limits to work within, so this form constrains.

Format: solo/monologue podcast

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Links:

• https://research-ebsco-com.ezproxy.siena.edu/c/chbvno/viewer/pdf/4b22zh63b5?force_login=false&login_hint=custid:s8999301,groupid:main,profid:ehost,authtoken:5c2d61ca-bb68-4670-8210-ad6013190a23
• https://research-ebsco-com.ezproxy.siena.edu/c/chbvno/viewer/pdf/tljmghwlnb

Guiding Questions:

• How can the audience put “found poetry” to use?
• Why should the audience care about found poetry?

What I want the audience to learn:

• Erasure poetry conveys an actual story, it isn’t just crossing out random words/lines
• Found/erasure poetry is present everywhere: from a street sign to official government documents.

Brainstorming:

• In “Found poetry, found hope: a creative and powerful method for sharing health research,” the author explains that she didn’t care for poetry and was mostly involved with math and science-related studies. She was willing to give it a shot, so she did.
• The author realized that the process of creating found poetry out of something she is so passionate about (women’s rights) revealed her creativity
• “By creating new work through the partial effacement of prior texts, erasure poetry literally puts processes of obliteration on display and provides a structural analogy for both: the social erasure of marginalized groups and cultures by hegemonic discourses and politics and the criticism and rewriting of these discourses to redress unjust practices and conditions” (Heike Schaefer).
• The concept of street signs with graffiti crossing out certain words possibly being a type of erasure poetry is really interesting to me
• Ezra Pound’s radio broadcast that got him arrested in America

Rough Outline:

1. Introduce Found/Erasure Poetry

• What is it?
• What Counts as Erasure Poetry?

1. Brief History of Found Poetry and Found Poets

• Ezra Pound
• #MeToo Movement
• https://www.thehistoryofblackoutpoetry.org/blacking-out-the-history-of-blackout-erasure

1. Why is Found Poetry Important/Effective?

• Article about grief counseling
• Article about women’s issues

1. How to “Find Poetry” and Why You Should Give it a Try

• https://writers.com/found-poetry#why-write-found-poetry
• Explain how erasure poetry can be found anywhere