February 2012
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January 2012
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Tips for making a blackout poem
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The Kansas City Star is running a blackout poetry contest and wrote up some good tips for making your own poems, many of them from Newspaper Blackout. I thought I’d share some of them here, along with my own notes. New poems coming tomorrow! —AK
Use the newspaper. It’s cheap, they make a new one every day, there’s a huge variety of material in a single paper, and...
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“Why erase the works of other writers? The philosophical answer is that poets, as...”
– Jeannie Vanasco
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“The sender of a message can never fully know his recipient’s mental code book…....”
– James Gleick, The Information (via austinkleon)
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