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The Anxiety of Influence [1]

Poetry [2]
5.8.12

A cento, Latin for "patchwork," is a poem composed entirely of fragments and lines taken from other poems and/or written sources. Try creating your own patchwork poem by incorporating lines from various poems in a poetry anthology. For inspiration, read David Lehman's cento [3] in the New York Times.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/the_anxiety_of_influence [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E3D71630F931A35757C0A9609C8B63