Blackout Poetry

I only recently discovered blackout poetry when I bought the book Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon.  He posts his blackout poems on Twitter as do other people (#blackoutpoetry).  I decided to try it myself using book pages and here are the results.

This poem was created by my son's girlfriend.

This was a challenging and fun exercise in creativity.  For me it was much easier (and less intimidating) than writing a poem from scratch. There is more blackout poetry in my future.

- christina