This poem is my first attempt at “newspaper blackout” poetry. It was inspired by Austin Kleon’s awesome new book, Newspaper Blackout; a book hailed by The New Yorker as a “cross between magnetic refrigerator poetry and enigmatic ransom notes, funny and zen-like, collages of found art,” and by New York magazine as “highbrow/brilliant.” The process was summed up best by Kleon himself, “Newspaper + Marker = Poetry,” and I would urge anyone with a newspaper handy to pick up a marker and give it a go; its pretty fun. If you don’t know where to start, I’d recommend checking out Kleon’s homepage—here—or the Tumblr he specifically created for newspaper blackout poems.

This poem is my first attempt at “newspaper blackout” poetry. It was inspired by Austin Kleon’s awesome new book, Newspaper Blackout; a book hailed by The New Yorker as a “cross between magnetic refrigerator poetry and enigmatic ransom notes, funny and zen-like, collages of found art,” and by New York magazine as “highbrow/brilliant.”

The process was summed up best by Kleon himself, “Newspaper + Marker = Poetry,” and I would urge anyone with a newspaper handy to pick up a marker and give it a go; its pretty fun. If you don’t know where to start, I’d recommend checking out Kleon’s homepage—here—or the Tumblr he specifically created for newspaper blackout poems.

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