Jen Bervin’s project Nets is one of my favorite usages of erasure poetry. In Nets, Bervin uses Shakespeare’s sonnets as her source text, and creates erasure poems from/within them.

In her process note, Bervin writes: “I stripped Shakespeare’s sonnets bare to the ‘nets’ to make the space of the poems open, porous, possible––a divergent elsewhere. When we write poems, the history of poetry is with us, preinscribed in the white of the page; when we read or write poems, we do it with or against this palimpsest.”