NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT IS OUT!

Finally! After almost 2 years, Newspaper Blackout is out in the wild. You can buy it now wherever books are sold.

Thanks SO MUCH to everyone for all your links and tweets and support. This book would not exist without you.

You can see a ton of images of the book free for blogging/spreading around in my Press and Blogger’s Kit on Flickr.

Here’s a sampling of the wonderful press we’ve been getting:

“The poems resurrect the newspaper when everyone else is declaring it dead.”
—The New Yorker

“Highbrow/brilliant…”
—New York Magazine

“Kleon manages to turn the paper of record into visually stark nuggets of poetry and wit.”
—Texas Monthly

“[A] sense of play infuses the poems—short pieces that touch on first sex and outer space, in a voice that slips from funny to elegiac…”
—The Austin Chronicle

If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, please consider doing so!

We’re having a release party here in Austin tonight at BookPeople. 7PM. There will be newspapers, Sharpies, and chocolate chip cookies.

And finally, here’s the trailer for the book with music from the amazing White Denim. Feel free to spread it around!