AP Environmental Science Teacher / AP Research Teacher Carmen School of Science and Technology Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Erasure poetry is a process where a writer takes existing texts and, through blacking out certain words, finds new texts within. Ted Snyder has used texts from Thomas Say, John Curtis, John Henry Comstock, and others to reimagine the original texts and find the hidden stories of the lives of entomologists and the insects they study. Snyder's erasure poetry has received national attention, being published in literary journals such as The Georgia Review, Cincinnati Review, Banyan Review, Confrontation, and elsewhere. In this presentation, he talks about the process of creating erasure poetry and will read several of his creations.