Readymade poetry is a conceptual poetic practice inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s “readymades,” wherein pre-existing texts—such as advertisements, legal documents, instruction manuals, or social media posts—are selected, framed, and presented as poetry with minimal or no alteration; this approach challenges authorship, originality, and the boundaries of the poetic, inviting readers to find aesthetic or critical meaning in the mundane, as seen in the works of Kenneth Goldsmith or Vanessa Place who use appropriation to interrogate language’s commodification and ideological underpinnings.

Readymade poetry shifts perception of the source; placement in poetic context redefines meaning. Found object art. Study Duchamp. Enhances conceptual depth. Effective for challenging authorship.