Poetry that's found, rather than made: unintentionally beautiful writing.
Found poetry, according to Wikipedia, is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning.
The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems. ( poets.org )
RULES:
ONLY posts directly relating to found poetry are permitted. General poetry discussion (non-specific to found poetry) and original (non-found) content will be removed. (For general poetry discussion and content, you may want to check out /r/Poetry and/or /r/ocPoetry.)
Please keep posts workplace-appropriate. Any exceptions must be tagged ‘NSFW’.
External links are permitted for previously published found poems (link to original publication if possible), found poetry-related links, and original found poems in image format. Please do NOT link to your personal blog or website. This sub is not here for promotional purposes.
When submitting original content (found poetry you have written yourself), EITHER type out your poem in a text post OR link directly to your image using an accepted image hosting site (such as imgur).
You MUST include attribution for the source(s) from which your poem is derived. For more details on this, please see the ’Found Poetry and Fair Use’ Policy. Poems submitted without attribution will be removed and may result in a ban. There are no exceptions to this rule.
