Dan Simpson explores his work with crowdsourced poetry, using digital social networks as tools for artistic engagement and participation.

1. Cutting-Up Art and
Crowdsourcing
Poems
Dan Simpson

4. Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic
- Hannah Höch, 1919

5. Portrait of Tristan Tzara
- Lajos Tihanyi, 1927

6. Writing is fifty years behind
painting.
- Brion Gysin, 1964

7. Open Letter to Life Magazine from Minutes to Go
- Brion Gysin, 1960

8. When you cut into the
present the future leaks out.
- William S. Burroughs, 1960

17. The permutated poems set the
words spinning off on their own;
echoing out as the words of a
potent phrase are permutated
into an expanding ripple of
meanings which they did not
seem to be capable of when
they were struck into that
phrase.
- Brion Gysin, 1964

18. It's been fun being part of National Poetry
Day 2012 thanks to you
A strange combination of importance and
pride with the feeling that I'm just a small
part of something bigger. Makes me feel
more creative than if I wrote one or two
lines of poetry on my own.
It made me smile! I felt happy. I felt like I'd
made a real contribution to the poem. I felt
like a poet.

21. All writing is in fact cut-ups.
A collage of words read
heard overheard.
- William S. Burroughs,
1963

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