Newspaper Blackout Poems
Newspaper + Marker = Poetry

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Austin Kleon
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Austin, TX, 78713
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Newspaper Blackout Poems The strip cartoon Pearls Before Swine on blackout poetry: http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2009-11-03/

Lindsay Wolff Logsdon
Thu at 3:13pm
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Newspaper Blackout Poems
Sorry, Adam! Forgot to give you props for finding it!
Fri at 8:44am
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Newspaper Blackout Poems Taking scraps from unfinished poems and turning them into iPhone-sized haikus/one-liners. Would be perfect for iPhone wallpaper...

Thu at 7:50am
Shiv Vasisht
Shiv Vasisht
why call them unfinished poems, if they can become haikus? edit, edit, edit! allabest!
Thu at 9:18am
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Newspaper Blackout Poems Loving that Sports section lately...

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In progress
Shiv Vasisht
Shiv Vasisht
perfect kick to my b*lls - any hope of that kind of poem? :)
Thu at 9:21am
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Newspaper Blackout Poems You can't Ctrl-Z a Sharpie.

November 4 at 2:52pm
Adele Jackson
Adele Jackson
I'm with ya on that one !
November 4 at 3:45pm
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It’s Austin like the city, Kleon rhymes with neon…
Cynthia Edwards
Cynthia Edwards
Very clever!
November 4 at 9:36am
Ryan Gillen
Ryan Gillen
...or freon or peon!
Thu at 8:11am
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From an article about the Daniel Johnston iPhone game.
Randall Mosman
Randall Mosman
How much for this one?! Original.
November 2 at 11:47am
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Newspaper Blackout Poems
I don't sell originals, but maybe we'll make it a print. Stay tuned.
November 4 at 6:49am
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Newspaper Blackout Poems If anybody's going to the Texas Book Festival this weekend, I'll have a stack of Newspaper Blackout postcards in my bag...come find me!

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Stack of Newspaper Blackout postcards!
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Huge thanks to everyone who entered the print giveaway! Y’all left so many nice comments, I was kind of overwhelmed. ...
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Newspaper Blackout Poems Congrats to Matt Wilson (@matt_wilson on Twitter) for winning the print giveaway. Big thanks to everybody who entered! More giveaways soon.

Brianna Lusk Rangel
Brianna Lusk Rangel
Boo on Matt Wilson. Watch out sucka. J/k.
October 28 at 8:47am
Brianna Lusk Rangel
Brianna Lusk Rangel
P.S. Austin it's cool that you did this contest.
October 28 at 8:47am
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Newspaper Blackout Poems
Have no fear, y'all! I think we're going to do a bunch of giveaways in 2010 leading up to the book release!
October 28 at 9:09am
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Meg and I spent a good bit of the weekend going over the first pass of Newspaper Blackout. “First pass” is the author’s first chance to see the book all typeset and designed and actually looking like it will when it’s printed as a book. It looks really, really great. There ...
Newspaper Blackout Poems
A paraphrase of Flannery O’Connor.
Newspaper Blackout Poems
Four years ago today I made my first newspaper blackout poem, and to celebrate the anniversary, I’m giving away a signed, limited-edition print of “Overheard On The Titanic,” hand silkscreened by my friend, painter and printmaker Curtis Miller: There were only 18 of these babies made: one is ha...
Mikhail Kim
Mikhail Kim
i am a fan! your black out poems are always unique and thought provoking, extracting new life out of the mundane. a little like sculpting, carving down a mass to an essence.

i also really enjoy the de-signs you started doing, same idea, just more quick and dirty. like sketches.
October 20 at 4:51pm
Kathy Zarsky
Kathy Zarsky
Always amazed at the clever wit that you bring to the surface! Don't think I'll ever have a favorite, because I continue to be surprised:)
October 20 at 6:22pm
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Newspaper Blackout Poems Win a free, limited-edition blackout poem print! Enter before next Monday, Oct. 26th, midnight CT.

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Enter a comment or tweet this post to win a free newspaper blackout print!
Adele Jackson
Adele Jackson
So as far away as New Zealand we love these poems - surely that counts for something? (she says really meaning 'pick me, pick me' !)
October 20 at 4:05pm
Michael
Michael
If I lose, I will tell Mark.
October 20 at 6:10pm
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Buy prints and pre-order the book in the store
Lindsay Wolff Logsdon
October 19 at 10:20am