Another classroom hard at work on blackout poetry! Love seeing students in action.
For those of you looking for more blackout poetry on Tumblr, follow this tag. It’s been so much fun to see the form grow outside of this blog and the book. —AK
When my kids get ready to make art, they reach for the newspaper. Cheap and always available, it’s our household’s all-purpose work surface for messy creativity. And when the kids are done, their creations proudly drying on the kitchen counter, the paint-spattered, goop-glopped newspaper pages spread out to protect the table are often striking to look at in their own right…
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hitRECord user themetafictionist talks about how to get started making blackout poetry. Here are more how-to tips, and don’t miss the “How-To” in the back of the book, Newspaper Blackout.
Ronald Johnson’s copy of The Poetical Works of John Milton, 1892, which he used to create his Radi os.
Wow! I’d never actually seen the manuscript before — look familiar? I wrote about Radi os in Newspaper Blackout.
Everybody repeat after me: use a newspaper!
There’s a whole book about it called Newspaper Blackout.
Love,
Say it again: ‘Poetry is for everyone.’ Poetry is a place and it is free to all.
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Page 38-39 of the book SoulPancake: Chew on Life’s Big Questions
Super lame that Rainn Wilson and the gang didn’t give a shout-out to Newspaper Blackout (especially since they borrowed the idea from us) but oh well.
Thx, @gabotron2000.
Photos of Newspaper Blackout by wheniminthisdream
midterms started today and i know i really need to study for math tomorrow but i can’t put this book down. newspaper blackout by austin kleon.
