Website review: NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POEMS by Austin ...
fiskur discovered this in Poetry
•33 reviews since Feb 18, 2008
poetry, blog, art
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fiskur discovered 5 months ago- black out poetry, you just have to see
- UnoOne1 rated 8 days ago
- so true
- WhoGivesAShirt rated 4 weeks ago
- "Blackout Poems": The kind of thing I wish I'd come up with, but am far too unpoetic ("poethetic?") and uncreative ever to have imagined. *jealous*
- Akarshi rated 4 weeks ago
- Newspaper blackout poems. Pretty nifty.
- DrSeussisDead rated 5 weeks ago
- This reminds me of refrigerator magnets. You know, the ones that are just words to be arranged into psuedo-poetry. I think that's what's really wrong with a lot of poetry. They're just words arranged in such a way that they start meaning things. Except most of the time they don't mean anything; they're just words that the author thought sounded cool juxtaposed in the fashion of their choosing. Yeah, this is like refrigerator magnet poetry. Only they aren't placed in the shape of a swastika like on my aunt's refrigerator. I can't believe she hasn't noticed that yet.
- iwillbiteyoou rated 6 weeks ago
- I really really love this.
- andreacv rated 6 weeks ago
- blackout poetry. very similar to altered books. i like.
- hungryelephant rated 6 weeks ago
- This is SUCH a good idea.
- Snailrind rated 7 weeks ago
- From the page: "Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs the New York Times and a permanent marker and eliminates the words he doesn't need." --NPR's Morning Edition
- ezra03 rated 7 weeks ago
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- javamanjoe rated 8 weeks ago
- WOW! BLACKOUT POEMS BY AUSTIN KLEON. 'AGORAPHOBIA', APRIL 24TH 2008. Thanks 'berrypicker'. Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs the New York Times and a permanent marker -- and eliminates the words he doesn't need. He recently transformed an article about a piano concert into a poem that begins: "Forget about trying to speak ... the image is the travelogue." The newspaper ends up more black than white, and shows another way to read between the lines.
