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“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:

1. Wake Up Poem- Andreas from the Wake Up Community

2. Blake Griffin Dunks Over A Car- Matthew Olzmann

3. Style- Howard Nemerov

4. Subtraction Forever- Bernd Sauermann

5. Shine, Perishing Republic- Robinson Jeffers

6. Crusoe in England- Elizabeth Bishop

7. The Anthropocene Reviewed- John Green

8. And I Thought of Glass Flowers- A.V. Christie

9. Song of Myself, 25 Walt Whitman

10. Citizen- Claudia Rankine

11. The Fifth Hour of the Night- Frank Bidart

12. America- Ginsberg

13. The Antique Blacks- Adrian Matejka

14. Entreaty- Catherine Pierce

15. Scream- Lia Purpura

16. All the Fierce Tethers- Lia Purpura