NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POEMS by Austin Kleon

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

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38 Reviews

rajerino rated 7 weeks agopoetry

sweeet

graphicpoetry rated 3 months agopoetry

brilliant.

kalencki rated 5 months agopoetry

very creative... I can't imagine it is easy finding the right words in sequence to make the poem...

tassmarling rated 9 months agopoetry

all black poetry! love it!

downstreamer rated 11 months agopoetry

From the page: "Sort of like Michelangelo carving away the marble that imprisoned what he saw within."

UnoOne1 rated 12 months agopoetry

so true

WhoGivesAShirt rated 13 months agopoetry, great-ideas, arts, wit

"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*

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