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Afterwords(s): Take a Book/Leave a Book is a found poem series by Richard Holeton. As Holeton explained in his [https://cora.ucc.ie/bitstream/handle/10468/8128/ELO2019_programme.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y ELO 2019 presentation], the series was inspired by Joan Retallack's poem "[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54240/not-a-cage Not a Cage]" (1990), in which she recycled lines of text from books that she was discarding. Instead of using books from his personal library, Holeton sourced the texts from his local [https://littlefreelibrary.org/ "take a book/leave a book"] book sharing box. Each line of the poem is taken from the final passage of a different book. He completed the work over ten days, swapping out a new book each day, to create the finished 10-line poem.

The print version of Afterword(s) appeared in print form in Forklift, Ohio #37 and the multimedia version was exhibited at the &Now 2018 Festival of Innovative Writing.