not this
an erasure of an erasure

Source material: The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, by Nicole Sealey.
Put this book on your list for the Sealey Challenge next August.
an erasure of an erasure

Source material: The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, by Nicole Sealey.
Put this book on your list for the Sealey Challenge next August.
An old school erasure.
Materials and tools used include colored pencils, buff corrective tape, white corrective fluid, black pen, tape, the image of an apple, and the inversion of an image.


Sources: W. S. Merwyn “Unchopping a Tree” and Untitled by Milton Glaser
A three-pass erasure poem



One translation of UTHRA is “divine messenger of the light.” There are others here.
The source material is “Cutthroat” by my friend and collaborator the poet MK Francisco. What collaboration, you ask? Stay tuned. And stay patient.
Process note for the curious:

a three-pass, three-poem erasure for Deborah Kelly



These three erasure poems come from the same source material: Name it Nothing by my dear friend Deborah Kelly.
coming September 22, 2025



Source material for the end of summer is here.
A three times sourced erasure poem:



Source text, “War Sonnet” by Jessica Roeder.
Process note for the curious:

an off-cycle post for X.P.
The poem:

The source.
The translation:

How the poem emerged from the source:


