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Constrained and Experimental Poetry

Poetry made by rule, chance or borrowed material, including visual poetry, found poetry, blackout poetry, anagrammatic poetry, the vocabularyclept poem, flarf and spam poetry, the cento, micropoetry, comics poetry and cinepoetry. A form belongs here when its cited article describes poetry made from existing text, from a fixed constraint or from a new medium. The group sits within the Lyric and Short Poetic Forms subcategory of the genre roster and gathers the genres of this kind that the atlas already records, so that a reader can browse related genres together and compare how each one is defined.

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Wikipedia: Collaborative poetry
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an alternative and creative technique for writing poetry by more than one person
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Rhymed prose - Wikipedia
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a literary form and literary genre, written in unmetrical rhymes
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Visual poetry - Wikipedia
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Visual poetry is a style of poetry that incorporates graphic and visual design elements to convey its meaning.
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Found Poetry (Wikipedia)
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Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them (a literary equivalent of a collage) by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning.
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Wikipedia: Blackout poetry
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Blackout poetry, or erasure poetry, is a form of found poetry or found object art created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem.
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Anagrammatic poetry, Wikipedia
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Anagrammatic poetry is poetry with the constrained form that either each line or each verse is an anagram of all other lines or verses in the poem.
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Wikipedia: Vocabularyclept poem
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A vocabularyclept poem is a poem which is formed by taking the words of an existing poem and rearranging them into a new work of literature.
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Wikipedia: Flarf poetry
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Flarf poetry was an avant-garde poetry movement of the early 21st century.
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Spam Poetry (Wikipedia)
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Spam poetry, sometimes called spoetry, is poetic verse composed primarily from the subject lines or content of spam e-mail messages.
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Micropoetry (Wikipedia)
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Micropoetry is a genre of poetic verse including tweetku (also known as twihaiku, twaiku, or twitter poetry) and captcha poetry, which is characterized by text generated through CAPTCHA anti-spamming software.
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Cento (Wikipedia)
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A cento is a poetical work wholly composed of verses or passages taken from other authors, especially the Greek poet Homer and the Roman poet Virgil, disposed in a new form or order.
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Comics poetry - Wikipedia
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Comics poetry or poetry comics is a hybrid creative form that combines aspects of comics and poetry.
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Cinepoetry - Wikipedia
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Cinepoetry (or cinepoem) originally meant arts of motion pictures with poetic sense but came to mean cinematic poetry (or poem).
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Homophonic Translation (Wikipedia)
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Homophonic translation renders a text in one language into a near-homophonic text in another language, usually with no attempt to preserve the original meaning of the text.
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Wikipedia: Conceptual writing
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Pure conceptualism negates the need for reading in the traditional textual sense, one does not need to "read" the work as much as think about the idea of the work.
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Crambo (Wikipedia)
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In the early versions of the game up to the eighteenth century, teams would vie with each other to find and express a rhyme for a word or line presented by the opposing player or team.
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