Poetry from IT

[Saraadams]

In honor of National Poetry Month, and inspired by my enjoyment of IT, I am writing 30 erasure poems using this text as (properly cited) source material.

Here is a link to one of the poems on my blog:
His Teeth | ITSPOETRY

It would be amazing if Stephen King himself read this post. I know it's a long shot that I'll get a response; I wrote a series of erasure poems from a Hemingway book a few years ago and never heard back from him about my poems*, but thought it couldn't hurt to try again to reach out to an author whose work I admire and enjoy chopping up to create poetry, as an expression of that admiration.



* Maybe he changed his address. Or went to a long meditation retreat.**

** These are both fairly good euphemisms for what really happened to him, rendering him extremely unlikely to answer fan mail

 

[Tery]

Welcome to the Board!

 

[Moderator]

Sorry, but Stephen doesn't personally respond to posts here. Also, as noted in the FAQ, he does not comment like to comment on writing by other authors. Here's what is posted there in response to the question if he will read someone's manuscript and tell them what he thinks:

No. If I did that for one person, I would feel like I'd have to do it for a great many people and in a lot of cases you can read a page or two or three and just say to yourself, 'This is terrible.' But nobody wants to write that kind of letter, 'Dear so-and-so, I started to read your manuscript but it was just awful so I tossed it aside.' That makes everybody feel bad, including me, so I don't do it. There's another reason, and that's a legal one. I've been sued for plagiarism 8 or 9 times. Any writer who has deep pockets has been sued for plagiarism from time-to-time-that goes for J.K. Rowling, John Grisham, really everyone. For everyone who publishes best-selling fiction, somebody wants to think, 'Oh, he got that idea from me' and so it's just much easier and much safer to say I never read that book at all.​

 

[GNTLGNT]

In honor of National Poetry Month, and inspired by my enjoyment of IT, I am writing 30 erasure poems using this text as (properly cited) source material.

Here is a link to one of the poems on my blog:
His Teeth | ITSPOETRY

It would be amazing if Stephen King himself read this post. I know it's a long shot that I'll get a response; I wrote a series of erasure poems from a Hemingway book a few years ago and never heard back from him about my poems*, but thought it couldn't hurt to try again to reach out to an author whose work I admire and enjoy chopping up to create poetry, as an expression of that admiration.



* Maybe he changed his address. Or went to a long meditation retreat.**

** These are both fairly good euphemisms for what really happened to him, rendering him extremely unlikely to answer fan mail

....or he could have died 54 years ago....

 

[César Hernández-Meraz]

I did not know what erasure poems were (I kept thinking of the band).

But just seeing that link helped clarify it very quickly.