Fragments
a cento project
What can we create from shared material? How will ten, twenty, or thirty poets use shared matter to tell us something true? Fragments sets out to answer these questions and open the door to possibility.
How does the project work?
Fragments is a cento project. Poets craft a poem using a set of lines in the given lyric book. Participating poets can use as many or as few fragments as they’d like to create their poems, which should be no longer than a single typed page. At the end of the writing period, each poet will submit their poem to me. I’ll then compile the poems into a volume and publish it as a PDF book.
What is a lyric book?
A lyric book, as I’ve imagined it, is a document containing disparate lines of poetry, or fragments. In the lyric book, participating poets will find discarded lines from my own writing, the writing of friends, as well as borrowed lines from songs and other poems.
What’s the end goal?
To engage with poetry in a different way. To create something new out of something old. To borrow and bend and play. To generate a wholly unique poem from a collection of shared lines. To write!
Fragments Volume Two: Call For Poets
Want to participate in Fragments? I’m looking for poets and writers like you 🙂
Send Me Lines
Want Fragments poets to use your abandoned lines? Have some song lyrics you’d like to see in a poem? Submit them for inclusion in the lyric book.
Learn More
Watch this short video to meet me, hear more about the project and how you can participate.
Fragments Volume One
Fragments Volume One is here! I hope that you enjoy these poems as much as I do.
Lily Tobias 