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Walt Whitman, 1871
Sandra Cisneros, 1984
Langston Hughes, 1958
Emerge is a tool for creating found poetry out of any kind of source text—a book, article, letter, document—you name it. Check out our curated starting points below.
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Curated in Collaboration with Chautauqua Institution
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Creating an Emerge poem is a way of poetically reflecting on an original text, and building new meaning within a creative community.
Curated in Collaboration with Chautauqua Institution
Curated by the Wick Poetry Center Staff at Kent State University
COLLECTION · 5 TEXTS
Curated in collaboration with the Kent State Women’s Center
COLLECTION · 9 TEXTS
Curated Texts from the Exhibit Funded by the Knight Foundation
COLLECTION · 5 TEXTS
Curated in collaboration with Chautauqua Institution
COLLECTION · 9 TEXTS
Curated in collaboration with The University of Arizona
COLLECTION · 11 TEXTS
Curated in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Kent State May 4th Shootings
COLLECTION · 10 TEXTS
Created in Collaboration with Chautauqua Institution
COLLECTION · 11 TEXTS
Curated in Collaboration with George Mason University’s Fall for the Book Festival
COLLECTION · 10 TEXTS
Curated in Collaboration with the Library of Congress
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POETRY & ART
by Walt Whitman,
1847–1854
essay
by Jane Hirshfield, 2008
article
by Jericho Brown, 2015
LETTERS & DOCUMENTS
by Department of Homeland Security, 2018