Erased Land

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This community project offers visitors to the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center a chance to interact with and reinterpret the works of T.S. Eliot, one of the 20th century’s most prominent voices. Critic Helen Vendler described her first experience of Eliot’s “The Waste Land” as “rich, tragic, learned, hopeless, and musical.” Eliot’s works are often fragmented and polyvocal, mixing different registers of speech— this project offers community members and visitors a chance to respond to these poems’ fragmentary natures and bring their unique voices and perspectives into conversation with them.

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See the blackout poetry responses to Emily Dickinson’s poetry (Fall 2022) .

Here are the blackout poetry responses to Emily Post’s Etiquette (2023-2024).
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Check out the blackout poetry responses to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (Spring 2022).