Found Poems are those that are culled from others works, not intended as poetry, but slightly edited and restrung so they take on a poetic form. Found poems are all around us. One of the most famous is the New York Times 1981 obituary of Robert Moses, whose subheadings within the obit proved perfect for a found poem…
Robert Moses, Master Builder, Is Dead at 92; Robert Moses, Builder of Road, Beach, Bridge and Housing Projects, is Dead; Associate of High Officials; The Grand-Scale Approach; Not a Professional Planner; Part of ‘Our Crowd’; Into the Orbit of Power; Fur Coat or Underwear?; An Overwhelming Success;Long Court Fights; Drafted Park Legislation; Moses’ Tactics Were Both Extolled and Criticized; Badly Beaten in Election; Built to His Own Tastes; A Sampler of Quotations by Moses; The Face of a Region; and How One Man Changed It.