Today’s poem is a found erasure poem from Vivian Wagner. Would that we all could erase the hate and negativity to find the strength and love and light we need.

 

Erasing Trump

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© Vivian Wagner 1/26/2017
 

Vivian Wagner is an associate professor of English at Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio. She’s the author of a memoir, Fiddle; One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music (Citadel), and a poetry chapbook, The Village (forthcoming from Aldrich Press). She can be found on the web at www.vivianwagner.net and tweeting from @vwagner.

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author. VISUAL ARTISTS ! Do you have something visually poetic that you’d like to submit? GO FOR IT!
Please address any formatting preferences in your email. I will post submissions time permitting, with at least one per day. Editing will be limited to obvious errors of spelling and the like.

Read, follow, share, re-tweet, submit, live, love, spread light! Don’t forget to use #100Days100Poems !

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