I say you have to be a visionary, make yourself a visionary. A Poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses...

If possible write "without consciousness" in semi-trance (as Yeats' later "trance writing") allowing subconscious to admit in own uninhibited interesting necessary and so "modern" language...

5. Tristan Tzara's hat: Everyone in a group writes down a word (alternative: phrase, line) and puts it in a hat. Poem is made according to the order in which it is randomly pulled from hat...

The cutup is a mechanical method of juxtaposition in which Burroughs literally cuts up passages of prose by himself and other writers and then pastes them back together at random...

• Word Play : uses a combination of randomness and pattern matching to find words that resonate together.
• Dictionary Cut Up : Mix up text from the dictionary.
• Text Collage : Electronic text art.
• Poetry Generator : Randomly generates a new poem.
• Shakespearean Sonnet Generator
• Haiku-a-Tron : Generate a random haiku.


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• Cut Up Machine
• Mix Me With
• Word Medley
• Electronic Poetry
• Poem Collage
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  Anais Nin's Collage Technique

  "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
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  Ginsberg's Mind Writing Slogans

  "Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."
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  Marcel Duchamp: The Creative Act

  "the creative act is not performed by the artist alone..."
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