the.com/found poetry

means Poetry made by taking existing text — a label, a menu, an overheard sentence, a legal notice — and arranging or presenting it as a poem, with little or no change to the words themselves.

from The term borrows its logic from "found object" art (objet trouvé), the early 20th-century practice — associated with artists like Marcel Duchamp — of presenting ordinary, already-existing things as art simply by selecting and framing them. "Found poetry" applies that same gesture to language: the poet's work is less in writing than in noticing, cutting, and framing words that were already out in the world.