Newspaper Blackout Poems
Newspaper + Marker = Poetry

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Newspaper Blackout PoemsCreated on May 29, 2008 at 10:38am
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Yvette Walker

Yvette Walker Just posted the winners and finalists' blackout poems on the fan page. We'll do another contest this year, and it will nicely coincide with the release of the book!

Fri at 9:18am · Report
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Newspaper Blackout Poems Nice photos of a Newspaper Blackout slideshow / poetry workshop I did at Angelo State in San Angelo, Texas earlier today. The students were awesome: really engaged, and they asked great questions. Hope to do more of these when the book comes out.

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Newspaper Blackout Poems Hey y'all: I just realized that wall posting has been turned off for fans. Sorry! Please feel free to post your own poems, share links, etc.

Thu at 7:32pm
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Y'all might be interested in this: PBS asked me to guest blog about one of their upcoming NOVA episodes called "What Are Dreams?" Turns out, the creative process mirrors the dreaming process. As David Mamet says, "The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question." I think you could s...ubstitute "poem" or "blackout poem" for "film"...Read More

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Remotely Connected is a guest blogger project PBS is conducting this fall, in connection with the fall TV season. We've invited a small, diverse group of bloggers to present their perspectives on major PBS programs in an open forum. ...
Brandon
Brandon
You had me at "David Mamet".
November 16 at 4:42pm
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Romina
Romina
Amazing!
November 14 at 8:36pm
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Newspaper Blackout Poems Hey y'all -- on November 24th I'm teaching an online 1 hour class called "Visual Thinking for Writers." I'll be talking about the blackout poems and other visual thinking techniques that have kickstarted my writing projects. Dig it.

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Shiv Vasisht
Shiv Vasisht
sharing :)
November 11 at 5:13am
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Shiv Vasisht
Shiv Vasisht
nice! zen!
November 10 at 8:26am
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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
November 5 at 3:13pm
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Newspaper Blackout Poems
Sorry, Adam! Forgot to give you props for finding it!
November 6 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...

November 5 at 7:50am
Shiv Vasisht
Shiv Vasisht
why call them unfinished poems, if they can become haikus? edit, edit, edit! allabest!
November 5 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? :)
November 5 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!
November 5 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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