A poet exploring disremembering might write about the deliberate suppression of specific family stories about slavery, the decision of post-emancipation generations to protect their children from knowledge they felt was too painful to carry, and the cost of that protective forgetting; Toni Morrison's concept of "rememory" is the creative counterpart to disremembering, the insistence that suppressed memories continue to exert pressure on the present even when consciously forgotten, a dynamic that poets can explore through unexpected eruptions of historical imagery into contemporary scenes; A student poet might write about discovering a family photograph or document that reveals a history that was never spoken of, exploring the complex emotions of recovering what was deliberately forgotten and the question of whether disremembering was an act of survival or a form of self-harm; Lucille Clifton's genealogical poems work against disremembering by insisting on naming and acknowledging ancestral experiences that surviving generations might prefer not to examine; A poet might write about disremembering as a community practice, exploring how an entire neighborhood's history of racial violence was collectively suppressed for decades and what consequences that communal forgetting produced; The formal technique of erasure poetry can itself enact disremembering by demonstrating how the removal of words from a text changes its meaning, making visible the process by which official documents and histories have suppressed inconvenient truths