Newspaper + Marker = Poetry. Buy the book.
This is poem 4 out of 30 celebrating April as National Poetry Month (Inter)national Newspaper Blackout Poetry Month!
TODAY’S SHOUT-OUT! goes to DJ Baker, who took the crappy news re: the economy, and thought, “Let’s do something useful with this bleak outlook. LET’S MAKE ART!” That’s the spirit, DJ!
This is poem 3 out of 30 celebrating April as National Poetry Month (Inter)national Newspaper Blackout Poetry Month! (And appropriate for a Friday night, I think…)
TODAY’S SHOUT-OUT! goes to Carlos Rucker, who said this about the poems on his blog yesterday: “Suddenly, poetry is BOSS again. I think I found a new hobby.” Rock on, Carlos!
This is poem 2 out of 30 celebrating April as National Poetry Month (Inter)national Newspaper Blackout Poetry Month!
TODAY’S SHOUT-OUT! goes to Dimitri Antonissen: a writer in Belgium who’s had quite a bit of success doing Dutch blackout poems. Rock on, Dimitri.
It’s April, and that means it’s National Poetry Month (Inter)national Newspaper Blackout Poetry Month!.
To celebrate, I’m going to be posting a poem every day of the month of April. The poem above is 1 out of 30!
But that’s not all: I want y’all to participate as well. Anybody who makes a Newspaper Blackout Poem this month will get a shout-out from me on this blog!
Here’s all you have to do:
Let’s see what we can do!
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TODAY’S SHOUT-OUT! goes to Vickie at A Dare a Day: she saw my segment on Texas Country Reporter and was inspired to make her own. Rock on, Vickie!
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Cut from the book. Subtitle: “Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Writers.”
Yesterday I posted an oddly high number of links on the tumblelog related to blackout poems. Check ’em out.
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