A Cento is a collage poem made of lines taken from other poems -- such as a sonnet composed of lines from fourteen of Millay's sonnets, or Shakespeare's -- or from newspaper articles or television advertisements or whatever. Here's a three-line sample from a Cento, "Patchwork," composed by Joanna Migdal to celebrate women poets.
I dwell in Possibility. (Emily Dickinson, #657)
Yes, for that most of all. (Denise Levertov, “The Secret”)
It’s four in the afternoon. Time still for a poem.
(Phyllis McGinley, “Public Journal”)
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
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