“Cento”: a poetic form dating back thousands of years. The term “cento” references the Latin word for “patchwork”. The cento poem is sometimes referred to as a “patchwork” poem and is formed by the poet creating a new poem using lines from poems by other poets.
Cento poem below:
Wake Up Poem- Andreas from the Wake Up Community
Blake Griffin Dunks Over A Car- Matthew Olzmann
Style- Howard Nemerov
Subtraction Forever- Bernd Sauermann
Shine, Perishing Republic- Robinson Jeffers
Crusoe in England- Elizabeth Bishop
The Anthropocene Reviewed- John Green
And I Thought of Glass Flowers- A.V. Christie
Song of Myself, 25 Walt Whitman
Citizen- Claudia Rankine
The Fifth Hour of the Night- Frank Bidart
America- Ginsberg
The Antique Blacks- Adrian Matejka
Entreaty- Catherine Pierce
Scream- Lia Purpura
All the Fierce Tethers- Lia Purpura
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