index | found poems by ron reed

Here are links to several found poems I've assembled over the years. They are centos, "poetical works wholly composed of verses or passages taken from other authors, disposed in a new form or order." 

assembled poem | found, misread, and misheard | undated

seven found poems assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2022

six found poems assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2021

found poem assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2020

four found poems assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2019

Two robots are coming.

Hide the WD-40...

assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2018

I'm probably going to be a mad scientist,

and make the original recipe for creating life on earth... 

assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2017, #1

Musicians and night-club proprietors lead complicated lives...

assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2017, #2

I know nothing about her but what I heard from the scuzbut on the streets...

assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2017, #3

It came to pass in New York...

no use | february, 2017

gift wrap, old prescriptions, old chargers, broken headphones...

assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2016

Other people's minds are a foreign country...

assembled from the pages of the new yorker | two poems, 2015

Earthlings are fragile, demanding, and germy...

define mysteries | from harper's magazine, december 2013

Movements of the lower lip in dance,
A work consisting of a hundred love lyrics...

assembled from the pages of the new yorker | 2012

The morning was cold and the sky was bright...

three dreams | collage poems assembled for 'dreams of kings + carpenters | 1986

God spoke.

My own true love...