WOMEN YOU SHOULD KNOW
I have recently painted 60 Oil sketches of Women poets to accompany a Cento (A Collage Poem) composed of lines from their poetry.
In this form of poetry, lines are "lifted" from other sources and "woven" together to create a new, whole poem that stands on its own.
Writing a cento is a kind of an extension of reading, a way to prolong the pleasure of lines and quotations as a souvenir of the reading experience. It becomes a mosaic of treasured lines that may provoke and or amuse the reader in their new context.