Poetic appropriation is the practice of deliberately borrowing, adopting, repurposing, or incorporating existing texts, voices, cultural materials, or artistic works into new poetic compositions. This technique ranges from subtle allusion to extensive quotation, erasure, remixing, or wholesale incorporation of source material. Appropriation may serve various purposes: honoring or critiquing sources, exploring intertextuality, commenting on cultural materials, creating collage effects, or challenging notions of originality and authorship. The practice raises questions about ownership, credit, cultural context, and transformation, becoming particularly complex when appropriating from marginalized cultures or living poets. Appropriation demonstrates poetry's dialogic nature.

Poetic appropriation involves borrowing or reworking existing texts, voices, or forms—raises questions of authorship, homage, and cultural critique; common in postmodern and decolonial poetics.