Blackout poetry
Making a poem by blacking out most of a printed page with a marker
Take a page of newsprint, find the words worth keeping, black out everything else with a permanent marker. What survives reads as a poem. People who use it as a daily warm-up like that there is no blank page, only an editing problem, and that one page takes about fifteen minutes. Teachers run it in classrooms for the same reason.
Who backs it
Sorted by strength of stance
- Austin KleonDoes it
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Started making them in 2005, posted them to his blog, and turned them into a book in 2010. He points out that the method has a 250-year history he knew nothing about, and that blackout poetry now runs in classrooms and ad campaigns with no connection to him.
Source: AustinKleon.com: A brief history of my newspaper blackout poems
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